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We're breaking open Feel like our future's just begun
And all I know is that we lost time If we stayed right here, we could free ourselves and say
We'll stay awake forever
We'll hide away when no one knows
Let's run away together
To sneak me into the world
We'll stay awake forever
We'll hide away when no one knows
Let's run away together
We'll take these cities on our own And all I know is that we lost time
If we stay right here we can free ourselves inside
We'll stay away forever We'll hide away when no one knows
Let's run away together,
Sleep me into your arms,
We'll stay away forever,
We'll hide away with no one else,
Let's run away together,
Come on now,
Sleep me into your arms,
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Beautiful as it's been, it's time for me to go
I wanna sail away, I wanna feel the weightlessness of my soul
I've gotta go all the way to eternity
I will run all the way to see you move
I've got to go all the way through time and space to find the blue
See you
Y'all go
Y'all go
to my soul. I've got to go on the way to eternity. I will run on the way to see you.
I gotta go all the way through time and space to find my way
to see you
I gotta go
I gotta go
Still I let my feet off the ground
Gravity take me off us
Beautiful as it's been
It's time for me to go
I wanna sail away
I wanna feel the way
The snist of my soul
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I'm leave and I'll be hanging out here with the players since unfortunately you can't join us for these first couple of days
But we'll get y'all hyped up for that weekend
We have 16 teams as I said fine to be the best here at the Boston Major and speaking of the best
I've actually got the reigning world champions getting ready for the first match up over here
That's a quick question here atomic because you guys missed out on Copenhagen kickoff laying here
raining world champs to feel that like now that it's in North America there's a
little extra weight maybe on you guys to perform and beat everyone else here yeah
I think so we have a goal to win a land in NA and this is the perfect time so
yeah there's no better time yeah I don't want to delay it any longer the show
needs to get started you want to kick us off you want to tell them to get
the show started let them know what to do get the show started let's get the
show started
Let's go.
What I want to achieve is that I want to be the best player of all time, and we're going
to prove people wrong.
I'm excited to play with Mithra for sure.
It's a pretty great experience.
It's good to play in front of the NA crowd.
We know we are facing all of them doing it.
We know we can win it easily.
This is the first big event in RLCS, so I think it's a very important step for us as a team.
Our season is pretty decent, but due to the result,
I think that we'll only go up from here.
Seeing how these players are trained,
I doubt that's what teaches us, maybe.
Everyone is happy to come back to Boston.
Then, he's here now mentioning it a lot.
Of course, we're very excited to play in Boston.
We're very excited, we're very excited.
Nowadays, every matchup is hot.
Everyone wants to win.
I thought it was a hard group,
but it's not impossible.
Everything can happen.
Sometimes you can defy the odds.
We're gonna go for he's obviously like up and coming.
He brings that young attitude, but I think helps us all.
Nobody really believed how good we are right now.
It's satisfying to have your advice.
I played in Boston, it was an awesome last time.
Definitely being in the final, I wanna be way more.
I think I'm the Boston Major.
I think the thing that we wanna prove
is that we're the greatest team in the whole time.
Broccoli fans around the world,
welcome to Boston for day one of the 2026 RLCS.
It's first major of the season here.
Gonna be a fantastic day.
He's celebrating the best of rock.
We've got 16 teams from around the world.
I'm excited.
That video was getting me a little bit hyped.
There's them saying he's excited to be back in Boston.
This is where it all started for him.
Yeah, it's cold outside, but seating up
already in these groups.
I think these guys are ready.
They know every single match is going to matter.
It's going to be a good time, guys.
Yeah, it's going to be a good time.
Like I said, Boston Major.
Last time we were here in the game,
so we didn't want it.
And then it began.
I was the star of his big one.
After that year, we haven't seen him really win
anything since.
Now he's back here.
maybe makes a miss, but we don't know anything.
Like all players say, anything can happen.
It's a tight competition.
Mate, last time we were here,
no NA teams made this championship Sunday.
We don't have that problem this time.
We're reigning the defending world champs right now.
We don't have that problem this time.
Listen, NA's looking really good.
And also we've got the reigning, defending world champs.
There's though here, they're playing
and they're looking good.
Yeah, that's fair, but the last time we said,
NA's looking so good, it was probably majoring.
They have one team in top eight, right?
That's fine.
We'll see.
We have to play the games.
We gotta play the games.
We'll see, we'll see, folks.
Haven't played in the games this season's been going great so far.
We've had some fantastic Rockley go down to kick you up on it all to show you the best moments.
These are the progressive top plays.
Starting off with number 10.
Let's kick it off.
Let's go.
Shout out to the subreddit for helping me build out this list.
And there were so many plays to choose from.
So we're going to get 12 on here.
10 on the 1, 2, 3, 5.
Wavy, redacted, now bird is pro.
This is how you clinch boss.
You clinch him in style.
It's the World Champs Game 7 over time.
Lazy with the redirect.
Let's see it from his point of view.
Let's see how hard of a shot this really is.
Look at that.
That's the second best redirect I've ever seen.
That was a great clinch goal.
Let's talk about clutch.
And it's with TRK right here.
Look at him.
Look at him.
That's the best touch.
So you need to go up here.
TRK, steal a pinch.
No, I need to defend that.
No one's expecting that.
And that's why TRK is one of the best players of all time.
Because even when you've got the goal of your team,
given the ball into the defense,
you need to make the goal happen.
TRK can do just that pitch defense not expected.
Laser beam.
Listen, I just want to touch on the fact
that game said that was the second best
ruder I've ever seen.
Put it, put it, come to the chat,
you know what the best ruder I've ever seen.
Let's tell you this, NRG, man.
This is what they've been doing since they were G2.
All three getting involved.
The poppin' pre-jump to clean.
Oh, man, what the hell are you, huh?
And we got to jump back north, America.
And we got some of that depth.
We got M80 coming out with the pre-jump pass
into the double at zero to take down Gen G.
M80 looking fantastic. You see life. He's already up. He's ready for the shot watch out for them
Trying to go for the Paris major, but they're not here for them showing the depth of NA lots out of teams
And it's gonna be fun watch this. What's it give me number six here? Listen if you need a guy
He's gonna set up an XQ 5 minutes 19 seconds in the overtime is gonna be in here
This guy can really work this way through defense
Good job on Swift getting that demo in the back leading up a lane for Yann, I mean that's just a clean up.
Probably goes him to land down under, here's the OC boys, just saw some of the bench pass right to Caleb,
who pops it on the side, he gets a little red right at him, he's going to hit the corner,
he's going to hit the corner, they're not here, but they didn't win in the grand finals against Wildcourt,
that stepped power into the land and he looks at his awesome plays like this, OC,
they lost the spot but honestly, give it back to him, because if they can do this type of stuff
in OC, I think they can book down their own CS last day as well, great key, great play, great execution.
But now it's time for the podcast.
This is the talk show.
That's what it's about in North America.
He's had the fucking set to himself off the ceiling
into the musty, into a double tap.
So two doubles equal triple.
I know my map.
There it is.
Talk, what a shot.
What a performance all split.
All right, come here.
It's time to talk about Rezears here.
You got a guy who can give me a double flip reset.
Let's go coast to coast across the map
through the entire defense.
Rezears in all T to force game seven.
This is just one of the best players
He's seen this split.
Absolutely phenomenal.
You want to talk about double reset, trust me?
I got him right here.
Because Danu, he can do it as well.
He's one to the thing by one.
Reveal, put a hand up, you're too slow.
The other side's going to be in the middle.
Daniel, it's just so impressive how these players are
so sound at this day.
Danu goes from his left to his right,
and he goes back to the left to get on the two reset.
I like it.
And the third number three play.
We got a better double flip reset cross.
But this time, it's a roll-off on twisted mines
as well.
Look at that competition.
He has to do it up against, but he doesn't cross that.
We had three fantastic double flip resets.
I couldn't decide.
So I put them all at number three, but you see Ross here.
Look at his catch right away.
You know, he's got space.
He's got one.
He's got two.
Look at that flip.
A few placement.
Number two.
Of course, listen.
We had a double flip reset.
Look, it's not going to a pre-jump.
It's going double-jump.
This is happening.
They passed.
We're talking about the depth of the world here.
And they can pull this out on the stage.
There may be some to watch thanks again. What's that?
And then with a clean double my goodness, this is incredible from this game. It just shows a town everybody is listening
Rock League is a worldwide game for a reason. There's this so good, but we're not done with a page is that he saw
Telling it is enough things to go get his as well cat on the cattle
The default back in season 5 road championship if you know, you know, because Calum talking about things free jobs
He knows the ball's coming.
And after that, is it all in one, two, three,
I'm going to hit the net.
Look, those first few touches, yeah, there's echoes of Devo.
That last one, Devo could never.
Like, I love Devo.
That was not a thing that existed in any of our minds
back in season three.
What a play.
The top one or the number one player from those were?
Both great.
I've never seen so many good players.
There were so many good players,
but I love that APAC had the top two.
And they could have been anywhere in the top four,
probably, but both those plays were fantastic.
So it's going to be good show this week.
Watch out.
They're here competing.
They are here competing.
We'll get to see them play against the best in the world
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It is time to get that show on the road.
We've got group stage action for the first time
in a long time here on land.
We've got 16 teams from all over the world.
One trophy here at the end, Gibbs.
Europe's got five teams.
They just win, right?
Yes, K-Corp won that kickoff land.
So important to get EU that fifth team here.
OC now down to only one team.
Power is here to represent them
and try and put up a performance.
Yeah, and then on the other side,
I mean, you see that Virtus.Pro logo over there?
Yes, sir.
By an organization.
We've been asking for it for a long time.
Now it's finally happened.
Virtus.Pro will be with X-Nefers.
And also TSM has also joined the conversation as well.
So we got a bunch of Oars joined us for the spas to meet.
Good to see them finally get unredacted there.
Good to see, okay.
We've done those, they've been Virtus.Pro the whole time here.
And now they are here representing North America.
Excited to see them back on the stage.
These teams gonna be competing for the total of 102,000 US dollars,
as well as 30 season points.
Yes, that is a lot of points
because you only get 15 for a regional win.
So that is double that.
And if you win this major, you're going to the World Championship.
I don't think anyone is going to catch you, at least for one of those top spots.
So very important money and points on the line.
But we got to talk about my favorite part.
And that's the format.
We got groups.
We got 16 teams.
They're split into four groups, and we are doing round robin groups this time.
So that means tiebreakers could happen.
That'll come down to head to head game differential.
So not only do you have to win a best of five now, but if there's a three way
tie, it's going to come down to individual games.
So every single team is going to be trying to win 3-0, because it will matter.
OK, OK.
So you always want to win as best you can.
But the tiebreakers will be very relevant tomorrow
when it comes to qualifying for the bracket play on the Saturday and Sunday gameplay there.
So we'll cover tiebreakers in more detail tomorrow morning, when it's a little bit more relevant.
The 16 teams, though, competing here in Boston.
And if you're a Rocket League fan who only watches one region,
or maybe you're watching Rocket League for the first time,
you might be like, it's hard to kind of wrap my head around 16 different teams.
What makes each of these teams different?
Let's give each of these teams.
Let's go group by group and start with group a and give each of these teams a word one word that defines that team
Can't reuse any words here. Oh, okay. Okay, so so so get your thinking caps on we did this in North America
Previously if any of you are watching North America pre shows, thanks so much for watching the shows
We've been a lot of time making them here. Let's talk about group a reign in world champs up there at the top
I want to start at the bottom here with five fears gives what's one word that you would use to describe five years
I would say probably unexpected. I don't think anyone thought that these guys were actually gonna be here
They were the SSA number two team basically threw open one and even open two they did win it
But everyone was saying pioneers are gonna be that team and we got to the grand finals
There's pioneers versus five fears five fears
It was down three to one and they came back and won three games in a row to qualify for this major
So watch out for them. Maybe some upset potential
We always talk about how you're winning that's winning the series in the moment being clutch is one of the biggest things
That defines great teams
They prove that to get here to Boston see if they keep that streak going here and unexpected team five years
Let's talk about the power the lone OCE representatives. What's one word to find power here, bitch?
It's dark because tour sauce isn't here somebody
Locking doesn't fiber my body on a day flavor can be that walk or squad that ultimately ended up making power
He ended up getting with the number one D saw it first second second
They're looking pretty good right now and they've been ranked lately too and they've been really
grinding putting their time and OCE, last time we saw them at RCS Land, it was Wildcruh
they finished top 6 of our big shoes to fill.
I'm excited to see them.
They filled them so far can they keep it going down here at international play.
Historic here for power.
Let's talk about NIP, the Ninjaz and Pajamas, Daz, what's the one to work for NIP?
It's a persistent, it's an award I'll use to surprise NIP.
This is a team that when they're in your half they're constantly applying pressure
to you and they're so fast so quick to get to the ball that it's really hard to kind of get out of
your own half when you're playing against them CRR again one of the fastest players here on the team
and then just all these decision-making's been so strong and of course Jory's can make a play
happen at any time LBP's their coach from Australia this is a very well-rounded roster that's
very aggressive and it's hard to play against a team with that style that's not the best
placement here but when they're on you look tough to beat. I love that a little bit more
more of a play style breakdown here.
Persistence here for N'Ninja and Pajamas.
And then at the top here, I mean,
we all know them and love them,
but let's talk about the reigning,
defending Rocket League champions of the world, NRG.
And I'm gonna go with inevitable here for NRG.
They gave us a little bit of like,
huh, oh, what's going on here at the beginning of the season
when they didn't qualify for the Copenhagen land.
And yet they were so dominant in opens two and three.
They could have skipped open one
and still been the number one seed out of North America.
But the most consistent team in rockin' league history,
they are inevitable here at Boston.
And I love the jerseys as well.
Bring back the old school.
What was that, 10 years ago?
The beginning.
I don't know.
It was awesome.
Yeah, man.
It was a long time ago, but they're nice.
It was nine.
Nine, season three.
Oh, no, no, because in season eight.
They didn't have a season eight?
They did have a season eight.
I'm saying that they, of course,
kind of wore black and white and season eight.
Let's talk, so quickly here.
That's all the teams going to cover.
A little bit of story about each of them.
If I'm a person that really cares about players though,
like once one player, I would focus on from this group.
So I feel like it's like a group of life,
everyone expects energy to win.
But I think Ninjas and Pajamas have a case
to take this group, and that's because of CRR.
We talk about the speed on the field, he is fantastic.
He's playing three different regions.
He's always looked so good on both places on the field.
Defense, he's always been fantastic.
Then offensively, because of his speed and positioning,
he's always in the right place at the right time.
Like, if he gets going,
I think Ninjas and Pajamas could take this group down.
Yeah, I mean, we talked to Oli, he shares the same sentiment.
They were saying, Oli, you know, you're playing really fast on the field.
But he said it's because CRR is moving at lightning pace and trying to keep up.
And that just goes to show you that when CRR is comfortable on the field,
how he can really make a defense struggle, on-ball, off-ball,
and the rest of the team's trying to catch up with that speed.
And it's really effective.
We got a group. We got a persistent Nijzenba-Jama.
We got two champions of other, of smaller regions.
You're kind of unexpected results there,
and then the champions of the World and Group.
Let's talk about group B. So Falcons up at the top,
Furia, Virtus.Pro, GKE, Esports, a lot of interesting stories
here.
Let's start at the bottom again here, Gives.
Talk to me about GK.
What's one word for GK?
I want to give you three letters.
MVP.
This is the only team that have three LAN MVPs on it.
We got the same thing.
Here's the 2022 World Champion MVP, Joio.
2022 Spring Major MVP, and Abjack.
2022 Fall Major MVP.
So this is the greatest team ever, like if we're playing in 2022.
It's been four years, though.
So they still have thousands of experience, though,
and they will battle in this group.
Now, you might notice their results maybe
don't look like the results of a top 14.
That's because they're out of the fifth seed out of here.
This is the team that earned that extra spot,
through the dying of land.
So they've got, and through a tiebreaker match
to get here as well.
So a lot of light there.
A lot of expectations for GK.
They've earned an opportunity.
Can they make the most of it here?
Let's talk about Furia real fast as well.
Another team here.
the word desynced for Fury. This has been kind of the de facto South American champion for so long
and they do come through as the number one seed here and yet though they have not looked as strong
over the last year I would say for Fury. There's still sort of just something off-kilter about
this roster and Boston is going to be an opportunity to try and set it right.
That's right. You see them you see the results first first and at third fourth
and Sam open number two. They have switched now just in case you haven't watched any
Sam's. They pushed off that, pushed off the senior force here. And so the big thing for them,
I think Wave is talking about is international play. Can they elevate back to that level?
They used to be at two, three years ago. We'll see if they can get it done here in Boston.
Let's talk about the newly branded Virtus Pro, Desirene. What's the one word for Virtus Pro?
Yeah, I like you. You said D-Sync. I'm going to give you one. St. Gwyn.
Especially in difficult situations. This is chaotic. Okay. Okay. I like it. Very chaotic
team when they play on the back end the defense looks very chaotic. You don't know what's going to
happen. They make a lot of good in-taves on the back end and they can make a play out of nothing
but this team is composed and calm. Something that when they were really making a name for themselves
and getting to those second place finishes that we see, they still were able to pull out play
game seven. It's a tough situation even when they took down NRG that all that was in the top
plays. Yeah do that on that stage against that team was so good. Okay I might have asked
for that definition that word here again just saying we got to move and let's
talk about the Falcons face what's the word for Falcons pressure and a lot of
people probably think I'm talking about offensive pressure no no no no no we all
know they can do that it's pressure in terms of they made a big move in all
season letting TRK go they replaced them with Drolley they just made it to the
world championship grand final they finished second and they made a roster
with this coming off a winning the Riley major the pressure is on the
Falcon you had Drolley that means you were expect to win the world
championship and you expect to be the best. I'm very excited to see this team
later because we'll have more time to talk about that roster because I know you
have thoughts, I have thoughts as well and I think it's gonna be a fun
conversation but, Drowley making a big move and Falcons one of the favorites.
MVP, D'Singh, Sanguine and Pressure, the way we're talking about the teams.
We'll talk about players as well. What's one player here from Group B to
keep your eye on? It has to be Drowley, right? It has to be. He makes that
roster move. He was the one who left K-Corp. He talked to the Falcons.
was like hey I want something new I want to make this work and obviously he's been so incredibly
good these last few years his value as like an all-time high as one of the best players in the
world but the online split was a little shaky so we got to watch out and see what he does here.
See I like that there from Drolley because it is just such a big move that we talk about
and I think that you know Drolley's performance is going to be studied very closely but on the
other side of things I'm feeling like you know you have to have eyes on talk right this
this redacted pro roster has been so good.
It's been such an elevation for them as a team.
But the question is going to be,
okay, you did good at Copenhagen.
You're in a major environment now.
Actual international play, can you still elevate?
Can you still play on that level that allows to,
we seem to be some way we had to land before
at the WorldChanger.
It wasn't that great.
Can't talk, push them to the next level.
They have a huge win in that Q-Ball plan,
but that was that call in the bracket
where there wasn't a lot of pressure there.
There was a lot of rounds, no prize money as well.
So now the pressure is really ramped up.
And there's a way that any of these events,
like, oh, we're just playing rock league.
It's the same game.
But no, the context of the event does
affect the way the players think about it.
That kickoff lane, a great event.
But always going to have a little asterisk next to it.
It's not a major here.
They want to see, can the new Virtus Pro pop off there?
Let's talk about group C here, folks.
Very hotly discussed group.
And we're going to start here with Space Station.
Talk about the North Americans there here at Dazzar.
And what's one word for Space Station?
What's it got?
Another one for you.
OK.
Okay, that means hard understood only by select few because that man teammate doesn't understand why
Team so much closer. This team is a structure team
But they live and die by it if their team is not necessarily too comfortable
If there's problems here like what chronic or Diaz this they seem to struggle. It's very obvious
Yeah, it's certain mattress. I had a talk with their coach expert and there's an interview that I have out
He said that there was a mental block between
That's why I understand it, right?
So they know what that,
you saw them struggle in those matchups against Rebellion.
Now that they finally got over that hump
and they're back in a major environment
and they're in a group of depth,
can they play their way?
I feel like if they can,
it's gonna be a big difference maker
in how they do this group.
I mean, the first thing we know
is that Eric Boyce is pulling up the dictionary over here.
Let's talk about Arming Core.
There's so many different ones you can talk about this team.
I'm just gonna pick the word Godzilla.
Like this is the team everyone's looking at.
Actually, if you are in their group,
If they are in front of you in the bracket,
you have to put all your expectations,
all your preparation to figuring out
how you get past the blue wall.
Everyone expects them to win this event.
Most of the world's expecting them to be
one of the favorite, absolute favorites
to win the world championship this year.
The one thing they haven't done is win worlds
and then the journey starts here.
And it makes sense because,
the first half of those movies,
he's always like very scary
and then by the end, he's not that scary
and that's what's been happening with GameCorp.
They do so well early on
and they falter when it comes to a world championship.
So we expect them to do well here again.
I'm going to keep up with the
animal theme. I think God's
doesn't have. So I'm going to go
with goats because this is the
team. Filled with goats. We
have monkey moon the all time
goat. He's won two World
Championships in that open
era. Then you have TRK the
Mina goat who's been around for
so long on all the best Mina
squads. Obviously not a
focus anymore. And then you
have no vote who could be the
He's obviously the 1v1 champion.
There's going to have more 1v1s coming up soon.
He's the undisputed 1day 1 champion of the world.
He's the 1v1 go and right now.
He has a banner. He's the one for us to learn more about.
Exactly. So watch out. So much talent on this team.
Bates, give me a word for Vitaly.
Zen.
Hey!
That's kind of true, though.
He's back in Boston.
His arc started. His career started here.
He knows his arena. He knows how to get the crowd.
I pure him and Farrah were doing that thing.
And then when it comes down to it,
It all matters. How great is them playing? How far can he bring his team? He's both chosen his team. He's kept exotic
He had it's dizzy. I mean like he's making these moves happen. You might as well call Zin LeBron.
That's what he's doing right here. He makes these teams happen and they go as far as he goes
It's not just the fact that it was his story started here
It started with this organization on this stage in this building. This is Zen's territory
We said the age of Zen began right here. Yeah, all eyes are on him as we return
And it's crazy too because when he teamed with monkey moon
He was always like no the whole plan is to feed Zen and then we saw feed the e world couple
Even team France was like that is our job feed Zen and it worked there
So that's what this team's gonna do. Okay, we did talk about draw Lee for team Falcons and group B here in groups
Yeah, base we got to talk about the other side of that story TRK getting kicked off that roster
And you know when you talk to him he feels the pressure he wants to win against his old
Oh, he definitely wants to win against his old team, man.
Listen, he hit a boom.
I don't know if it's bad blood, but listen,
it's just competition.
That's what I'm going to say.
You got people like Johnny Boy, you saw the top 25 last night.
He's sleeping on TRK.
I don't know how he goes from being the best
meeting player to the sixth best meeting player.
I don't know how that happened.
TRK still has it.
The move was shocking in my eyes.
I still think TRK's playing great ball.
He's never winners.
He just fills in.
And now he's playing with Nobo,
and he's got more people on his team.
They beat him, because they didn't have a better overall
record, including the sawtree.
But then they're 1 and 2 in all CS.
So these teams are tight.
They have a chance of making a really great run.
Big auction here in Group C.
And we're talking about Group of Life and Group A.
And it's Group of Death there for Group C, folks.
It's going to be a wild one to watch.
Let's talk quickly here about Group D.
I'm going to start at the bottom there with TSM.
I'm going to pick the word champions, which
might sound like, well, there's a lot of champions here.
There are a lot of champions, but these boys
are the champions of their region.
Every kid who lives in the A-pack region
is watching these guys and hoping to see them get
the trophy.
not just carrying the weight of like the competition of their
league, they're carrying the rate of the whole region and all
the fans that want that representation here. TSM picking
up these boys. We saw them in the top plays. We know what
they can do. Can they bring it out here on the top stage and
make all of their fans at home proud? And they absolutely
dominated obviously three first places, the perfect split
and again, the top two plays on the top ten, which is
probably even more important. So there you go.
Brought to you by progressive. Yeah, what you got for me
made in Brazil. Listen, it's called Astruz. You know what that means?
It's hard to comprehend because this team is hard to comprehend.
Listen, if you look back at their results, they have, no, that's understood by select few.
Come on. You see the results, second, first, second.
They've only played Furia one time and they lost that matchup.
They've never lost to any other team except Furia.
So for me, where do you place
in my VR in this tournament?
How strong is CMS region?
If you're is, it's not,
if you're is kind of like it.
It seems that they are,
be there by buffering.
That's simple to come.
How do you get to the bracket
without having to run in the
theory of the final bell?
Here you go.
All right, I'm going to poke
a little fun at first go.
I'm going to call them week
day because they're week
day warriors because first
killer in groups is the best
player in the world.
We've seen it before.
He's taking out take off
multiple times.
It just comes down to the
They need to show up then.
We expect Rebellion to come out of this group.
I expect them to win this group because they're
always so incredibly good on Thursday and Fridays.
But first killer, it comes down to Saturday and Sunday.
We need to see them perform there.
OK, we'll see if they can get it done in groups.
Lots of eyes on the Rebellion squad.
They're the final team to talk about.
Bates, give me a word for your teammates.
Priming, they're finally hitting.
I think it's in his prime.
Archie, he's in his prime.
Now he's still starting to get close to his prime.
This team is so talented.
last year when Oscar was playing with Archie, I was like this team they're looking really good but they've never reached that potential and now on the gentlemates here.
Well Archie was with Oscar, it was Oscar and Nasa I believe. I don't know, Oscar changed too much.
First the team, they had Nasa and Oscar, I was like this team they hit it last year and now these three are all together.
The potential of this team is unlimited. You saw they'd be Carmine Corp, they handled them here in EU Open Number 3 and they look great doing it.
Yeah well you did the top 25 players yesterday and Oscar was nowhere near the top for many of these. Listen, I'm,
I'm like unsure why because Oski look fantastic in that EU open three
He looked like the big dog on field and he performed so well
He looks like maybe one of the best players in Europe
Maybe even the world, but he's got to show it on the land and we'll see a gentleates can keep that go
I mean he definitely can I'm he's part of all the liquid squad but a chronic and at so I think all three
And I'm really succeeded at the RCS level. I told the most Oscar trying to get there
and he's back with Archie Hill two years ago.
Archie and Archie played together.
Over at the 2024 World Championship,
just took a little break from each other.
Now they're back together.
And I just think this team
didn't really just make some real damage here in Boston.
Who got the best word?
I mean, I'm a math major.
I'm not an English major.
Okay.
I'll have to listen.
I'll take the L.
No, I don't listen.
I'll give the Mar it.
It was Sanguine.
Sanguine.
That one made sense.
The Esoteric was a strength.
What was the definition of Sanguine again?
Sanguine was optimistic,
especially in difficult situations.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, and I like it folks want to see all these teams competing today across two different broadcast and they're gonna be trying to play for
Seeding to get into this bracket if you win your group
You're in the upper round one if you are second in your group
You're in lower round one with only one life if you're in third or fourth of your group
Your tournament is over again lots of money on the line lots of points on the line for qualifying for the world championship at
The end of the season the hundred two thousand dollars as well as the trophy
We've got a lot of players of minds today folks. We've got one or those let's get in to group a when to start with group a
We're playing a group by group as our action goes
I want to start with group a action here
Dad's ninja pajamas could be taken on everyone in the group energy can take any moment work that group
That's how round drop into works. We're start up with power versus energy and five fears versus ninjas
Yeah, and of course you got to look to that round to match up between
Nip and energy that's gonna be a big one
But I mean even this starting things off all of these teams really have to come out of the gates
swinging especially when you talk about those head to head gives it's important to have just such good wins and
We have two broadcasts happening
Simultaneously twitch.tv slash RLE sports is this alternate stream the schedule you see in front of yours was gonna be played on that stream
So they are getting ready right now for five fears versus ninjas in pajamas
Make sure you have that stream pulled up so you can catch that match there
Main stream here where to play six matches today
We're gonna kick fine want to finish things with Shopify versus the gentle mates
So they'll be waiting there.
We'll get to see Shopify also in match number two.
It's been in Brazil, but to kick things off,
the number one team out of OCE versus the number one team
in the world, Power versus NRG.
They both have two great decals.
You can get them at the Esports shop.
They're nice.
They're great decals to have.
And saying that, though,
his match was going to be hard for the Power Squad.
They're going up against the reigning world champions,
and it's just going to be difficult
because NRG's defense is so proficient.
And honestly, it seems like their offensive pressure
has got an even more pristine and defined throughout their run as a team at NRG2.
And now it's going up against him.
You kind of just do a little bit of.
Listen, it's going to come down to this guy right here, though.
You got the buzz.
You got Gus.
He's finally here on the land stage.
I was hanging on here a year ago.
Remember that?
He was.
He said he finally wanted to see Gus.
Well, I hope you're watching.
Gus is right here right now.
He's going to show up here on the land stage, 21 years old here, coming into
this major.
And again, with Superman super locking himself and Fiberson next to him.
I mean, he's got good, he's got a good toolkit.
He's got good teammates to really, you know, help him out here and get him settled.
But they have a top eight seed because of that World Championship run.
They were top six.
Even production put them backwards.
They put power like as the third seed, because everyone expects
OC to be that third seed, but they are at the World Championship.
Maybe not these boys themselves, but OC as a region, they always pull
off one upset somewhere, right?
And in groups, one upset could be the difference for a bunch of these teams.
So I think you want this match up here.
You have nothing to lose versus the World Champs energy.
It's times to be a little slow to start.
So that's very possible.
That's neat.
While the history has always said energy is inevitable,
this is the spot where they will struggle the most.
The reigning, defending champions of the world, kicking things off here
on the broadcast for day number one.
NRG back in the old jerseys, playing with the new ways, though.
I mean, the team, you just look at the team and you just, you see greatness.
You see Daniel, Atomic, Beastmo.
You know that every single one of these players has the ability to show up and show out.
The only concern you have from NRG at this moment is that they sometimes
start slow at these events.
And that's going to be the big trick here to see how does NRG look coming out the gate.
They'll give us a big tell on how they do the rest of the event.
Yeah, we're going to see Daniel.
Obviously, he's probably the best player on this team, and they usually try and create
space for him to be able to do his top 10 worthy plays.
So we'll see how Daniel performs like if he performs well, then they're great
But there are times when he shoots and it's a little bit off the shooting percentage goes down
That energy has to play that defensive game which they love to do they play very good defensive ball
But these movies the one player I think two years ago one of the best in the world last year kind of filled back
Just a bit but when it came to the world championship MVP performed and that's what matters
So now they're at the land he needs to perform again here today. Yeah, Daniel and beast mode
They weren't here last time in Boston back in 2023.
They missed out barely.
They won the second regional, I think, in split number three.
But they finished fifth, eighth, and fifth, eighth,
and the first and the third.
So they missed out on that.
But this guy, Mr. Consistent, out of time.
Four years ago, he won his first major, almost four years.
He was back in March 2022 in LA.
He's trying to get his third major now.
He's also a world champion.
I think he's the greatest North American player
to ever touch the sticks.
And him, with his coach, man,
they've been together for a long time.
into the G2 days and try to get the job done yet again.
Yeah, I'm so high on atomic right now.
I think all the leading up to this event,
they're playing great.
I feel like he's the best player right now.
No big words, no more.
Where's the big word?
I need something that talks about time.
He's actually Terry.
Only people can understand that he is.
Yeah, Terry is.
Johnny doesn't understand.
I can tell you that much.
Yeah, you're absolutely right on that.
But for me, I mean, seeing his form right now,
I've also been one of those people
who have been kind of hard to put them
above someone like Daniel and Beast, you know,
because they're always, but I feel like this one.
Yeah, this recently had just been absolutely stand out.
It's going to be very key for NRG's performance.
And if he continues at this performance,
I mean, I don't have them win it,
but I could see them win it with the Tomas play.
And then like, let's not forget that last year
the energy was a little slow,
but the Tomas was that one consistent player
that was performing at every event,
every online regional was him performing,
kind of carrying that team to get that number one seed
to get them to the World Championship
for when his teammates finally performed.
Well, Chad, let us know who you think's
going to win in the progressive fan
vote right now in the chat.
Hashtag NRG for NRG, hashtag PWR.
Power there.
We're talking about the format here.
This is the first time we're doing group stage,
a group play in a long minute.
Round robin with a tiebreaker situation.
You're saying every game can matter for power.
Obviously, the goal is to win.
What a win it would be.
But how valuable is just getting game one?
Oh, absolutely.
Like, if they get any games,
it will definitely help.
Because if it does come down to some weird,
Like upset happens and now there's a three-way tie somewhere if they tie with energy back game will matter so
You see how it is. I feel like power like
This is what you want an early morning game when everyone is just trying to get warmed up
And you're going against the top of your group and if you get the upset here the entire group is wide open
So should be fun and obviously energy we talk to them all time, but if I and I feed the eye test power
No, I think
energy play
But the access to the energy has never looked fantastic right even last year it didn't feel like great
But they make everyone else look terrible when they play Falcons in the final Falcons look terrible
That's because energy defense is so incredible. So power. We know we'll see they have a history at times
To look terrible right so energy could take advantage of that
But we'll see powers got to be perfect all my all my eyes here
That's our on Gus right now because you have his his first land to land rookie
We don't know whether he is a land boy or not.
The players they've seen, the one they show up in these events,
sometimes they peek, sometimes they really struggle to get back up to their standard level of play.
His first land here, going against arguably the least rookie team in existence at the moment.
The most consistency, the most experience, losing and winning in this environment,
Gus is going to be the next factor for me.
Yeah, and I think this land has something that's different from all the other ones
with timeouts being introduced and best of five.
So that may have a factor if, you know,
power starts to really struggle early on.
Maybe they take advantage of that, use that time out,
take some extra time to maybe work with Gus or
do whatever they need to do to clean things up.
The other thing can be said about NRG though,
it's kind of a double-edged thing.
If NRG, who we normally see start slow,
take that time out so they don't drop too many games
in the series faster, I mean,
it's a very different dynamic.
A question for the desk here.
I mean, it gives me, maybe coming to you first
for Sathieu, for energy, for Freaky here, for power.
I mean, as a coach, when do you call on that timeout to best of five?
Usually, you wait until after you've lost.
That's true.
I think you still probably wait until the other team has two wins.
Like, it won't be two in a row, obviously.
It'll just matter whenever they get two, because that's the only time that you have left,
unless they see something in maybe a game one.
Like, if a game one goes terribly for one of these teams,
maybe you just call it early and just get it done,
because you don't want to go down O2 and start a battle back.
I think it's funny, because I think that there is, within a best of seven,
There is just such an obvious point.
Yeah, all here where this is a little bit more dynamic.
Yeah.
How badly did you lose game one or was it close?
You want to keep your boys in the groove, right?
Yeah.
I think we'll actually maybe learn a little bit more
about how the team, what does the state of the team,
depending on when the coaches call the time out here.
Because if they called up for game one,
we understand that they didn't like how game one went.
Versus maybe the game was close, they lost.
But they like, we liked our game plan.
We think we'll win if we keep doing the same thing.
Let's not call the time out and just keep
the train on the rails.
Yeah, it might just do that. Listen, the power, they get smoked in game number one. I think they're gonna call timeout.
The thing is they're gonna keep on rolling on. They're gonna be expecting that.
They're gonna have to get smoked in game number two. Then you just gotta use your timeout. Just don't want to.
Yes, but if power wins game one, I think energy comes.
You know what he's not gonna call timeout. He's gonna be fine. They're gonna be wild. They're gonna win a game.
It depends on how close you are. Listen, I want to talk to Mr. Worldwide over here.
Because life's called something Mr. Worldwide. He had all the power in his top 25.
That's right.
So, I mean, talk to me about the strength of his team. I mean, where do you see him going? Like...
When I see it going, it's a tough group.
We're getting started right now.
First game for them.
Listen, it's a tough group.
But listen, every single group usually is tough to be at the best.
To make top eight at this stage.
They're all set in 2026.
You got to be able to perform.
And all three of these guys, they got the mechanical ability.
We've been talked about there with OC for the past three
season, at least I have.
You didn't see just the fraud.
He doesn't believe in his region.
And all those people in that chance thought, just like, yeah,
it's really just been me and me alone.
Just like, yeah, it's not this region.
Let me tell you something.
When they're on, when these teams just trust and believe in their ability,
they can compete against anybody.
Fiverr, I'm bringing it way back.
And he was at the Birmingham Major,
but I'm bringing it way back
to the 2024 World Championships.
He was electric.
They finished two, three, I believe, in the Swiss.
And he was absolutely balling now.
He showed that he can compete against anybody
when he's gaming.
And if he can do that with Gus, with Locky,
they could not be at NRG, but where they can be,
they can't be at NRG.
And that's just what matters.
But for power too, Lagoce,
they kind of like gone through the ringer, right?
They lose a spot.
So now they only have one team here.
Not only that, because they're in group A
with a top eight seed,
everyone is saying that group A is the easiest group
because powers in this group,
because they are the worst top eight seed.
So powers in there are like,
well, powers in top eight seed, five peers is not,
but so the reason why it's a group of life
is because powers in this group, right?
Like five here, sure, yeah,
that they're a fourth place team
in this group very likely,
but the reason, again, it's group of life
because everyone expects ninjas and energy to just walk through this group.
Powers in there like, guys, we're here to play.
We had our former team that was here.
They made top six, went to all in groups at the World Championship.
We're here to perform and now we're the only team here.
So we have to perform.
So I think they have to use that
like as momentum, as motivation to try and get this one because it can really
come down to that round three match.
And I was looking at the round two.
You're not a rapper.
Yep, but that power in IP does have some weight to it, especially if power come out against NRG and it's a competitive series
I mean
That's even matter is competitive if power just go loses the first it lose the energy and then they beat five fears
And in IP lose the energy didn't straight one there both be one more
Yeah
It's just about making sure you get the reps in against the world champions and try your best against them
Listen, if you could beat them you can sweep up or cut then you can get the job done
It's a surprise me, but if you don't have this just play for tomorrow and open in our key handles in our feet
But if they don't if ninjas wins that and then power has to be ninjas
And then games matter versus energy though the then it matters with game differential
So again every single game matters so that time out
I expect teams that first maybe not to use it because they probably will forget they even have it
But then they'll realize how important it is to win every single game
I think we will see a lot of timeouts called after game one. Maybe on Friday
They sell technical gives gives gives you to break out either to break down on
Like he's a smart guy, you know, I call myself the simple guy listen and power ends up getting slapped or even if they score
I go they lose it match up and I'd be decent RG. You're taking the first flight back to Sydney. Okay, you're going home
Doesn't matter. I'm gonna keep a nice simple guy. We have a smart guy. What does what kind of guy are you?
The big word guy. Oh, he's the Englishman
I mean, Mr. Esoteric out here, I was I was saying like all my eyes are on Gus.
I'm also just excited about this because like it's not that often, especially for
the regions that we have that have fewer slots that we get to see rookies from
that region. OCE has been kind of sending the same six dudes it feels like
for the last three years. The last time we had like a OCE rookie was
been in 2024. The last time that we saw like an OCE player coming from there.
So like you gotta like I'm excited to see is this the difference maker?
because our thoughts are like, oh, rookies,
they're shaking for them.
But sometimes they pop off.
And we might be able to see that with Cus.
Well, we obviously have a game delay,
so that's why we're here for a while.
I think that hurts.
That definitely hurts because he just
wants to get into the game.
Because right now, his nerves are probably
playing at an all-time high, and he just
wants to get into the game, and then he'll feel fine.
But it's the preemptiveness of this,
and just waiting until you find a place.
Yes, I love how you touched on that, because, listen,
we got Gus up here.
All y'all who's playing half-time start the game.
Listen, we'll get to the game in a second.
We got Gus on our lives right now.
Let's get the box work out.
Gus is balling out loud.
I can guarantee 9% of y'all watching this dream.
I've not just seen Gus play rock.
Look at that.
Look at that.
When am I having Metro is looking good.
Tomorrow's Gus's ball.
All right, listen.
You see Gus.
You see the mechanics.
When you have a young player with mechanics on a squad,
it can really stem to another level.
We know Super Lock in five,
but we know what the Bringson table will be like.
That extra impulse,
that being able to stay in the play,
make something happen.
I mean, you need that extra life, too.
You know that, okay, we got a guy
got a guy who can make something happen out of nothing.
It gives fiber super like more comfort
because they can play around.
They're veterans of the game at this point.
There's also the like, I mean, this is me.
We're very much cherry picking like two goals
we saw there as a highlight.
Both of them involved in the crossbar, right?
And he had to come back to finish it off
after the first shot.
And obviously there's just two specific moments
after a season of plays.
I'm not saying that that encapsulates
who he is as a player.
They're the most flashy goals he had.
But those little margins there will lose you goals
at this level of competition.
And especially after finish the shots.
When you're the underdog, when you're playing against one of the best defenses in the world with energy, they're not going to give you many opportunities.
So these guys have to capitalize on those few chances you have.
When you're the underdog, you've got to go at least like 50-50 on good scoring chances to have a chance.
Energy at times, their offense is flat.
We have talked about it in previous majors being the 15th best offense at multiple majors.
So if you can get a few of those goals early, energy might not be a battle back.
And we talk about like energy being one of the greatest defenses in the world.
doesn't mean they don't get scored on it means they force you to shoot perfectly
in the middle of the net the easy shots always defended and that means you got
to shoot to the outside which means you hit the crossbar more often which means
that the goal is that the woodwork is saving it for you right so those those
sorts of shots you have to hit if you're gonna beat a team like this even
in one game. It's gonna be tough I feel like a regionally too like North
America we talked about how they have never looked better. We said that
last year at Raleigh Major it didn't work out but I think this is even
better now and energy obviously is the kings of NA the kings of the world right
now and they have to perform because they were complacent and open one it
didn't go their way but that was a good wake-up hold that was a good quality loss
I'll say to wake up over your power to be ready for it over your powering I had
energy at two I had them at two I had them higher than k-corp all right so
give me that I felt is a lot come on Falcons it's hard to do the top three
right now. It is very simple. What's your top three? My top three, KC NRG, and Albus.
Alright, so what's your top three? World champion is number one obviously. We haven't played in real
land yet. Come on now. World champion is number one. He put Carmine number two thousandth number
three. He's that Nugget. Wow. Hey listen, not in the top ten, but maybe they can crack
in there. They actually were commenting on top ten saying, wow, number seven seed
not in here. Well, listen, you got number seven seed because of the wild card. Show
up now. How was that? Oh, I'm getting, I'm getting word we are two minutes to
gameplay. That timer can move the other direction sometimes but hopefully we are
going to get into it. So, we don't want to yelp about these teams. Who's picking who though?
I'm curious to see if you're picking power on this one for the upset.
Folks, let us know who you think is going to win at home in the chat. We'll make our
picks, Naz. Just kick things off. What do you got? Give me the reigning
defending world champions. Give me NRG on this one. I think, yes, a slow
start, but this team, Beast Mode, talked about it. They want to win this event.
They're gonna come out the game swing for the old fans of energy
Don't have the best record against OCE back in the day through
But energy is gonna win this I think power gets one game
I think they are good enough to take a game here, but I think they only get this game one sure
Okay, no game one time out energy. Okay, I'll join you on that one
I think I think it's gonna be a 3-1 and our gene wins. I think game one goes to power
Bates I've heard enough of me. That's right start the game in on G
And all that talking to how good power is and you're not going to pull them out
Is this not the match for them to win? Well, definitely not. No, I mean just
Where's the coin at how's the coin feel about it folks? I've seen the coin a while. How's it going?
There it is energy on one side power on the other into the sky and comes out for power
The coin's got our back here not gonna be a sweep on the desk coin nose ball. We'll see what happened point all weekend
Imagine it's starting right today. There's a chance that we start the show and the coin is the only one
That's got a prediction correct because I don't think anybody in the green
I went with it. Yeah, we're on this one. I'll check it. Yeah, I did check it
We'll find out here a second. I'm that there they're still tabulating the votes to find out how chat
I think it's higher than ninety seventy five twenty. It should be ninety to ten. What time is it?
Eighty.
Where's the glove for the afterglow?
That was a close.
It's early. It's the first match up there.
Let's start the game folks to kick things off in Boston.
It's four days of brutal action.
We got two days of groups and then the bracket in front of Esports.
Greatest fans.
It starts right here, right now.
Get up and get loud.
It's game day.
NRG vs. Power.
And at long last it is showtime.
Somebody at 11-11 made a wish and they wished for game one.
Brought to you by Progressive.
We are here, ready to go.
Manfield's backdrop is Tower and the reigning world champion,
NRG, will take the stage.
Tower and Kirk feel like they've got the best possible draw
they could get.
They feel pretty good about the group
and they get NRG where they are historically
at their worst at the start of an event like this.
I guess their 11-11 wish came true, right?
Everything is set up for them invested.
It possibly could be for now as far as round one
is concerned, but yes, Fiverr's guts and Super Lockhead
travels all the way out here to attempt to take down
the Rating World Champions.
The only Oceanic representative now,
with the slots going down to one,
Tomic credited with a shot there,
the thousandth of his land career.
First milestone, did not wait long to get there.
And as you may note, up at the top,
best of five here in the group stage,
shot from Fiverr's gonna sail high and wide,
B-Smo is going to collect that now.
Gus looking to bring it central, but Daniel's all over it.
So too is Atomic.
I both say I want to commend Power
on being able to hold NRG the way that they have.
In a case like this, you are kind of taking it
one minute at a time.
For now, though, they get the opportunity to take a shot.
It is read out by B-Smo.
That has not stopped the pressure so far.
It was shot down.
It allows possession to stay with the Power boys.
For now, I think the name of the game has been a kind of boost of that energy squad to really attempt to slow them down.
Geesmo testing Fiverr.
Alright, it bounced that to himself. Didn't work out.
Daniel lobbed one net-word.
Looked too high to count for a shot.
Outlet to Super Locky. His drive will be held way high.
And still looking for somebody to blink here past the first 90 seconds.
Super locky. Good to get to this. Viper the save. Run on the goal line. Daniel the FOMO.
Top locked in at NRG. Striking first. It's exactly what you expect from NRG on day one. Nice clean pass and play.
And of course in the off chance it misses you're gonna catch Daniel on that third man to make to finish the job.
NRG find their lead. Almost in about two minutes. I don't know if that's about where you might have expected power to keep up with them.
but honestly this feels like a pretty decent series.
Oh, Beast Mode trying to bring that down to the ground.
It's trying to stall out the power defense
and the other one hiding it back for it.
And Mount Cleanly to Beast Mode.
Now Super Locky will just sit in that field.
Only Daniel to beat.
Thomas cycling in behind him,
but it's Beast Mode that takes charge.
That got past five or could be troubled
but a good back pass over to Super Locky
and that kind of quells what would have been
a hairy situation for Bowen offensively.
Fiverr, Logus had to let this one down.
It's been pretty much power on the low end of resources,
because they approach the second half of this game,
another big boom care from NRG.
They do play the close to one goal game,
so Bowers trying to equalize as quickly as possible
with some time on the clock here, Gus, down.
Can he regain possession?
No, he's going to be a mouthful follow
from through the 50s fast.
And it's just one 50 after the other from NRG,
straight back to the blue.
Boy, I thought Super Locky was up early
and still Daniel beat him.
He is just that fast and that deadly.
Beast Mode's up for this.
Daniel Lurking at midfield,
Atomic going underneath as well,
as Daniel turns back.
And now the shot coming in for Beast Mode
goes just a little bit wide,
trying to stretch out the power defense
inside two minutes with a one goal lead.
Super Energy's been playing these,
you know, they shot a little bit slower
and branches wider than normal.
Most people can attest that to saying, you know what,
maybe it's first round of the day, pretty early.
This is what powers kind of hoping,
is that they can catch them off guard as quickly as possible.
Especially in such a short series,
but so far, despite all the attempts,
powers yet to find any pretty decent shots.
This is the best one they've had so far.
They almost got it five at Atomic on the goal line.
I'm gonna toss that up now. Daniel back the other way. One last touch.
Trying to feather that one through.
A huge demo on the other side to relieve more pressure if a power needs affects.
They don't need a break.
Gus, let that one go. Daniel unfazed at all.
Only five or to beat.
Blitz, reach that pole game! Daniel stuffed it through.
Everybody was expecting a slow start from NRG, but not from Daniel.
Back in vintage, looking as piqued as ever as they approach last minute of the game here,
up two nil on power.
So Daniel owns game one, a pair of goals to lead the reigning world champs.
Still got some business to take care of here in the final minute.
Super lock, he's gonna get one net bird.
Gus, slam it hard off the corner, but atomic pops that one away.
Now, Fiber, thought about coming up, realized Beast Mode had him beat by a mile, that goes back out to NRG.
Is it a hat trick? No. As Fiber sweeps across from the crossbar to save it away.
Final 30 seconds now, last chance for Fowler to get any kind of offense.
Ball's going the wrong way for them. Super lucky, have Fred to dive into the corner with them.
Still, nobody has passed today, they have just not had more than one or two quality opportunities.
and NRG are going to close this one out in textbook form
unless Super Locky's got something to say about it.
And he does not because Daniel's just a little bit louder.
NRG makes a statement in game one.
It's a shutout for the reigning world champions.
Nothing less than expected from this team.
This is what everybody has been waiting to see on land.
A little questionable in the road to getting here,
but it is done nothing but then getting better.
Squares powers can turn though a shaky start
to the beginning of the series for the squad,
but honestly, I will say, I think this is the best
we could have hoped for, and it's not the peak.
Right, and this is a team that feels like they were peaking
right at the end of the regionals,
they could have had a great boot camp
coming into the Boston majors who look back
at the highlights from game one that was
All Daniel, all NRG, and they talked a lot on the desk
about the addition of timeouts to these best of fives.
We're getting a timeout from power after game one.
After they get outshot nine to four
in that opening game,
power takes the first tactical timeout of the Boston Major.
I'm honestly not mad at the timing
of this timeout either, right?
Sometimes you might have waited to save it.
Maybe if NRG had gone up two
or onto that magic point per se.
But Power did have a fairly decent game.
They held them to one goal for about half of that game
one there.
Once they gave up the second, you
could tell the nerves were starting to hit the frustration.
You could see it on Superlucky's face.
And of course, Gus really had stepped up there a bit.
That's the land rookie for Oceania
that is trying to make a difference historically
for the region.
There's Gus and Superlucky that had two shots each
for team power in that opening game, Fiverr who has the most career goals of anybody on the power
side trying to close in on a thousand for his career he's 16 away did not have a single shot
on target in game one forbidden temple looming here as we get ready for game two on the other
side of this time out again best of fives you get the timeouts now on land for those
and big challenge for Freaky behind them to get this team kind of get the offense
rolling because it seemed like they were hesitant at times and you kind of have
to be because you're going up against team that just seems to play not quite on
autopilot but boy they do seem almost superhuman in their motion and they're
just so much faster than anybody you've played up to this point in the
season and you see I'm gonna start going with this. Oh no beast mode's there. I can't and then they have to turn around
They're out of sorts now we go to get June. We'll see if it's a different story
But the boys from OCE
Well the truth is energy is one of the longest standing roster
In almost of all time, they're trying to you know, give gal force and dig the top to run for their historic money a
Shot from the ceiling and down just enough in the tank from fiber to be able to clear this one out
but it's not going to stop NRG's offensive push here in the early stages.
They forced the attempt is clear, but of course, like you said,
all throws lead it to Peaceful.
A lot of physical play there coming up the power defense.
Then Atomic wins this ball cleanly,
net word, and Gus has to make a save from way down town.
This goes harmlessly across and a brief reprieve for power.
Locked the dash on along the wall.
Can he make any more impact? No. Atomic did a sweep that away.
And yet again NRG sends power packing away as Beast mode
diving through. Fiber stops him. Opportunity now.
Poor power is taking that ball central. Try as they might.
They just couldn't get the clean pass out and now it's only super lucky at the back.
That's those nerves that we were seeing early in game one, right?
They have these opportunities to be able to make these centers and these touches,
but it just gets a little bit away from them
and NRG recognized those moments of shakiness
and completely just stopped them in their tracks.
They tried to get here, Fiber and Guss worked together,
trying to make a shot to the Lockheed.
Off the backboard, no shot given,
instead it's transition out for NRG.
Okay, can't just flub one up to the backboard like that.
Somebody's always gonna be there for NRG,
trying to throw one central,
an atomic there just ahead of Lockheed,
and another one set away from Fiber
as Peace Code barrels through.
Joss got hindered on his way up. Opportunity though for super lucky. Atomic's all alone at the back,
but it'll outlet over to Beast Mode and once again NRG like a well-oiled machine and every
aspect that whips my fiber nearly cost them dearly. This is kind of odd, but I do kind of want to,
you know, claim that maybe it's, you know, first game of the land of the day everything.
They have an odd number of wide shots as far as NRG is concerned. They're trying to fix it
here. Beast mode to the backboard. Shoe up keeps him out. Back to stop atomic though. He wants to
get a little closer to that thousandth goal. Super Lucky is going to delay it for a little longer.
Out to the corner. Once again Beast mode. Two atomic. Everything's a pass for NRG.
Everything's a desperation clear for Team Power. Super Lucky had that go off the ceiling and
he's at least able to stay with it. But again, not able to find a teammate. Just trying to
You relieve some pressure yet again and Daniel has that ball right into his lap and he scores top left again.
What a set up by Beast Mode.
I love this. The duo is back. Such a clean drop.
Would have gone out honestly today. Just fairly missed the mark.
But it's not going to stop the aura from pushing it onto the opponent's internet.
Have that game on in. NRG's same position as game number one.
Entering the second half. Up by one.
Normally one of the mantras that I go to is you can't really win a game like there is series like this with only one person doing all the scoring
That is true. Unless your NRG and that one person is Daniel
Dustin Biesbott collide in the air and that just goes right over super lock his head and once again power
Unable to get up what old here is just has to make it's able to go live
What is saved from gusty again, and it's not land rookie from OCD that a lot of people have been eyeing
He's the one that made the difference that allowed power to take down wild part in game seven of their regional
So now they're going up against the big gods of NA
And so far they've been able to hold on it's just that offensive side of the game
Is where they're lacking right now, but not the same to be said for energy
Another clustering shot, that one's set right at Super Locky and he'll go off to get it himself.
Beast mode up there just to send power away and Atomics wanted to take charge.
And once again, NRG continued to stifle power right at the midfield line.
Just the stuff there, but no possession for the Boisermose.
Daniel all day to set one up in.
That was a good pass but nobody's diving in for it.
And NRG certainly doesn't have to press the issues.
the lead. Power has to come at them. Be small. Drop it down. Rolled out by Guss and he has to go
out and charge Daniel as well.
You can feel power getting very frustrated especially with those shots right there. A lot of these
passing plays between NRG is forcing power to kind of separate themselves a little more than
they want to. All three commit in orange and it's going to pay off power. Tie NRG.
Rare opportunity where they're able to get to this first. Atomic is driving up the
back wall Daniel for once in his life didn't get there in time and Fiber looking for his milestone
gets the assist on power's first goal from Guts. The one thing we have all made known of since
NRG's open three qualifier was they are beatable. Yes they are absolutely incredible and inevitable
but they are beatable. Power trying to prove it back here the 20 seconds on the clock trying
trying to break out of their half, it's a 50 gone dead ball.
Fiber's got to make the quick cut.
Daniel was there first, it's another shot,
registered two of the boys in orange.
Can they make it and end it?
Not the flight.
We got eight seconds to go with all the pressure.
Two NRG down over to Atomic,
but a quick interception from Fiber.
Kez kept power.
Keen, the play, this one's going to be a shot.
It's going to hit the ground
and we're getting our first overtime from Bust.
First overtime of the major
and it's power in the running world champs.
How quick will it be?
Beast Mode, one this, and Gus will just pop it back away.
Super Locky downfield, and Atomic sure handed
as almost always at the back.
Now Beast Mode, and a lot of time and space,
but five are running underneath them.
Took all of that away.
Atomic, Fort Daniel, who's been incredible so far,
that last tough set away.
Super Locky looks like he's really good, but he's going to get power soon. Time to gather resources to take this ball back from mid.
They bump Atomic completely off the planet. Daniel's already there. Get his pinch off the center.
And for now, energy's just got to continue to keep the pressure on. The power seems to be building a stronger defensive as time is going on.
Clicked on and that's set out by Fiber. Super Locky waiting at the corner.
Nobody's gonna get to the net and Superlucky gets in the way of Daniel.
One minute gone by in OT, it's been all NRG on the attack.
Another kept a pinch in front and Beastfo just watches that go, undeterred.
Set it up for Atomic, he's up there early, wanna fall down and Beastfo wins in an overtime!
Such a classic play here, you saw them multiple times, trying to find each other,
but as soon as that backward had been completely cleared,
NRG take full fledged advantage of the opportunity,
and they get their match for it.
The Grim Reapers of Group A are one win away from a 3-0 start.
And of course, so important to get as much as you can
in every single game.
And you can't have any letdowns here in the group stage.
tiebreaker is all important but it's NRG that survives game one or game two rather
and now power looking at a real uphill climb without the use of their timeout they do get
that opening goal from Guts finally they they got off the snide but still looking at the reigning
world champs down 0-2 yeah this team is a power they've taken down a lot they take down wildcard
in a fashion that was pretty heartbreaking for the region,
but not for them and their friends and family.
Now they come here, face off against NRG.
They, again, that one goal is pretty exciting.
However, it comes at the knowledge of knowing
you got outshot 16 to 6.
There's that.
There's that.
I feel like that's when reality really starts to set in
and you're like, at the end of the day, it is NRG.
So you got to put some respect on them at full times.
And we're going to see any color find their flow into this.
What can Freaky do to help him out?
If not, off the kickoff, Daniel might be the one
to start NRG right.
It might not be a whole lot that Freaky can do.
If NRG is able to put up another nearly 20 shots
in a closeout opportunity here.
Beast mode.
He'd skim that himself.
Don't be just let it go.
Gus there, but only as far as right in front
midfield line super lock it out flip reset but above one but the secondary defender daniel
again gotta be faster than that they're gonna be scoring on nrc
nrc just trying to put the same game they have in the last two
very fresh we're heavy on their festive front even out there and man a little bit more back
atomic their right place right time to carry them over the mid and it's a very fast follow
that have been forcing power into a very awkward pace of play.
And that's what's making things so much more difficult for them
to be able to transition out of their half.
Pause for now.
But honestly, I think it's...
What's this admin form talking about?
Like, we can referees back?
Come on.
All right, we'll have a brief pause here
while we sort things out on the side of either power or NRG.
Again, if you're just joining us,
NRG does lead the series two games to none.
Dominant first game even though it was low scoring two goals both from Daniel in that game
Then he scored the third goal for NRG to take the lead in game two
But that game went to overtime at Forbidden Temple after power reduced their time out by the way
So, you know power has to go the rest of the way. This is kind of an extra timeout
I guess for power is they
Will be looking at having about four minutes here in a scoreless game
to solve the puzzle that is the NRG defense and that defense has been absolutely
suffocating you go back to the NA regionals you can ignore region one even
though it was still pretty low-scoring defense in regional one they could have
set up that event entirely and still claimed the top seed for North America
That's what happens when you kind of win NA2 and NA3.
So, running World Champs in form, both teams I think would say
her that they are playing their best Rocket League
of the season coming into Boston.
Oh, for sure.
The funding is you and I had actually had the opportunity
to talk to power yesterday during their media day.
And something to note was, you know,
the addition of adding Freaky as a coach.
having that EU play style now introduced to Oceania
so that they can be a little bit more prepared
here at the international stage.
I mean, it's so far, I mean, they have kept it fairly close
to NRG like respectfully, these are all one goal games.
So the shutout, you know, expectation is
it's been proven wrong.
But yes, as far as power is concerned,
this is, it is a really big proving moment
for all three of them,
Actually all four of them. You talk about Freaky too. This is his time to really
Change some waves out in other regions
For both of these teams, of course, they also have ninjas and pajamas and five fears in their group
those two teams will be
looking on at results like this with
Obviously a very vested interest in looking to see okay, what what do we have to do?
Which team do we have to contend with?
Obviously, you would expect it would be NRG at the top.
But can Power at least take some games off them?
Can Power make things a little bit interesting
as we continue through Group A here?
Of course, four groups here at this Boston Major.
And we said it at the top of this,
for Power, this was the best draw.
Yeah. No, this actually could not have been
a better group for them to have a potential to seeing not only day two but even the crowd
knock on wood you don't want to think too far ahead for them but they've got
nip five fears and of course energy in front of them all in their group this is the best setup
for this squad like you said if you didn't watch the oce regional three in particular
They just took down the number one in most people's hearts.
OCE team, the one that made the top six in Leon, the one that is really
you know, had banana head.
You know, his name has been out of everybody's mouth at this point.
It is up to this power squad to really just continue
the legacy of OCE closing the gap between the rest of the world.
for Fiber kind of feeling snake bitten after last season right you know coming
so close yet being so far away and and watching how the rest of Oceania shirk
out we are by the way just a couple minutes away here looks like they're
gonna start from about 403 from a fresh kickoff and so power and NRG will do
battle here will resume at DFH Stadium with a kickoff 4-0-3-0 score and again
the power must win to prolong this series and maybe a different outcome for
Fiverr and the Boards. Even if you are a power you know let's say that this is
where it is you still want to get those goals you want to give yourself the
opportunity for you know should anytime for the Verizon or anything on the
other end of the field you've got to make a statement headed into the rest
matches of this first two days here. So NRG really want to shut things down but
it's not gonna be that easy. Pass off over to Fiber. No last touch. Comes from Cowan.
Over off and running. Gus running on the one. Ran into B-Svote. Fiber still
forward. An ambitious play there with Daniel taking charge. Now Atomic out
to beat Super Locky and Beast Mode ahead of Fiverr.
Fiverr jumped and realized that, never mind.
That ain't happening.
Daniel looking to go indirect for himself.
That's going to go up to Beast Mode instead.
And he's got a full tank to work with.
Hits from the ceiling.
And that's going to go up to Daniel.
Every time NRG gets to the back wall,
it just ends up coming right back out to them.
Power and need possession.
They need a break big time here.
They're not getting one.
I feel like the break of anything
is the fact that so many of NRG's shots have
and wide. This one it won't be though. You saw Beast Road, you saw Atomic and you
the second Atomic got the space in the past that shot was going in. You
smote to the ceiling to get the reset to bring it down to Atomic. Unreal stuff
as NRG, a certain dominance here in game three. NRG really just want to give
their best foot forward and that means holding on to this one goal it is in the
same story two times now potentially could be a third here for this squad
Daniel tries to carry them out again it's a quick commit from these modes trying
to make it the backboard they recognize it's five or so down but it's time to
take the shot
what they might utilize team up to get to try and catch NRG off guard you
Gotta get a little on the dogs, maybe at this point.
It's your power, Fiverr tried to dribble through.
Do an all they can to save with the play,
couldn't even make contact with Atomic.
Now Guss, for super lock,
he tried to keep it close to the best.
Looking for a rerun opportunity, none forthcoming.
Fiverr lets that one go,
and unfortunately for him, Beast Void is right there.
Could Fiverr make any contact?
No, he couldn't get a piece of Atomic.
That would have opened up an opportunity for Fiverr,
but still NRG holding on.
Beast Void skimmed that one,
and Fiverr will have at least possession for a moment,
try to slow play around Daniel,
can see the ideas, the execution locking on either side.
That's pretty much been the entire story for power.
There's opportunities handed to them.
This is one of them, and they will take advantage.
You were talking about how some of these have gone away
from them a little bit due in fact to Nerv,
but not this time.
It was a really strong reset in the pass up
The side wall there and I love this center placement.
Power of officially tied NRG in the third.
Game on at DFH.
Another late equalizer.
Daniel ends up hitting a second touch off of that and once again, boomed away by Vismo.
Daniel has Gus waiting patiently at the back.
Vismo is going to collect this.
Daniel, Gus takes him out, and Atomic there to make the save.
NRG almost got caught, but only almost.
At this rate, we're going to need the stats on how many Atomic
attack career-wise, because he's definitely
putting up some numbers there for himself.
One minute left.
Even playing ground between the two NRG,
trying to end that quickly as possible.
Atomic no touch.
Daniel up next in the line-up here.
And Gus gets the beat on.
This is a great sign for power as they make their transition out.
They try to offer the center again.
He feels super lucky.
He played it close, but still, atomic is the one to stop them.
Opportunities are there.
There are cracks in the armor.
Daniel threw the backboard, took around this ball,
beat one on his way.
Now Fiverr needs one more touch.
Got a reset out of that, and still,
Beast Mode is going to send this ball way down through.
Fiverr's still down there, though,
And he can start to work with a full tank.
Flip reset his beast mode gives him no time
to work with at all, goss in trouble.
Flip beast mode on the way through.
That might have been the difference between that
and a game winner for NRG.
Beast mode will collect the final count down here.
Last opportunity should belong to the world champs.
Atomic trying to put it high.
Daniel's there, drop down beast mode for the win.
And it goes up to the corner.
Atomic can't find a teammate.
We go to overtime for the second game in a row.
NRG, wanna start the weekend off with a clean 3-0.
They almost had it, but power is letting go of it.
Oh, the kickoff, you see it here.
Superwaki and Fyber working together.
Look at this quick cut from Superwaki.
And as soon as they recognized that NRG
had actually pulled themselves out of it,
they just full set on the shot and it pays off.
And right off the initial kickoff super lucky gets that touch that throws everybody off and leaves the ball central and
Still doesn't miss a beat able to go grab the midfield boost and go to work
Power have life after getting out shot something like 18 to 6 in game 2 a very different story
through the technical pause and
and power are not dead yet at the start of group A.
You can see the passion too if you missed it,
but Freaky just absolutely pull sending in
into the few moments they have here.
But this, this was the shot that a lot of people
need to expect a little bit more often from this team.
They have the right tools is the experience
against these NRGs of the world that has been missing.
So the fact that after three games,
to really start and to get it together.
Recognize when to slow down, recognizing
when to pick and choose their battles against Beast Mode,
against Daniel.
This could actually turn into a fairly interesting group.
So Beast Mode and Super Locky have overtime winners
as we kick off the Boston Major in Group A.
What will we have for an encore at Utopia?
NRG does not use their time out.
Daniel returns the banner on the ensuing kickoff to start game four
It's an RG right you're gonna hit them in the OT. They're gonna get you on the kickoff. They put them just enough
Super lucky a little bit wide
In an RG have their lead
One of those where you look at your teammates you go, wait what?
You're gonna get one back though. He's only got a tonic to beat
with our side and could not beat old iron sides the post comes to the rescue
Daniel unable to make them pay a super lucky collects you can see the passion
coming from it you because they are trying to speed their pace to play up a
little bit more that was something that was lacking in that game too from power
with being able to really you know fight at the same level of speed
offensively as energy wise another shot blow and why from energy they're
Gotta keep the pressure going here.
And the emotions carry power.
Josh has a lane and this save made right at the last.
Had to eat a demo for his efforts.
Atomic to the rescue now super Lackey.
Lackey has fiber running underneath.
Couldn't get contact.
Josh waiting. Got a bump there and just a shot denied.
Well out of front by Atomic.
Follow up is saved by Daniel.
who has been phenomenal here in this opening series.
Earth Power absolutely has to make that rush back to you.
They had almost full committed all three members
on that attempt to give themselves the shot.
Still those way sides.
They completely deviled Fiber off of his opportunity
to score here, and they got to play the pass back.
Big spoon of hip from power to keep them gathering resources
and potential to fight back in the energy side.
Daniel taking charge again. He's got four goals already for NRG. What else could he do?
Maybe an assist, but nobody diving forward. Now, Thomas will take his turn. Peaceboat waiting.
His shot! Crossbar! Pulse! Everything! But the net has power. Keep it within one.
Those post shots are killing NRG, but they are really keeping power in this one.
You got to take advantage of this though and then fight. It's a bit wide but not the follow-up
Like a layup line hit the backboard hit the post did everything finally just coming on as the entire
NRG defense jumping around and now they're dancing to their beat
Power tie it up with three minutes left
This is the region that was the first to really and truly start to close the gap over time.
A lot of people saw that when Wildcard's name was not up here with them, that there was nobody that was really going to give the NRGs a fight.
But this one has a shot denied by Gus, keeps them out and NRGs have to play the tie game and bring the second half.
Without the pandemic, you would have expected Oceania would be closer to gaining a spot than
losing one.
They were getting that close.
And then they were just trying to cut off from the rest of the world.
And catching up over time, this power team trying to push NRG to their limits now, early
on in the Boston Major.
Off the heels of what Wildcard was able to accomplish in Leon, would pass up to
beast mode but that's cut out. Now Daniel is going to work. Got the demo there but that's all he gets.
Now Tommy, a round fiber. Super lock is back. Gus jumping up. He's getting the way of beast mode
and he does just in the nick of time. NRG are also now starting to make a commitment
and it is going to pay off. He's gone there. Didn't shame forward one after the other and
of course when the initial pass and play the center didn't come through they tried to stick
and it's tight as possible, and it pays off.
I guess I had no idea Tomik was there.
Or if he did, he already conceded that.
No, I'm not getting to this.
So Tomik scores on the weak side.
Not super lucky looking for fiber instead of money.
Daniel, that's a problem.
They're not teammates, and NRG, looking
to press their advantage.
They lead, but only by the slimmest of margins.
Again, can they put away power this time?
And one way to find out...
...the energy you're going to hold on to that one goalie,
you can see power lurking all three members in that half,
so that commitment could potentially cost them.
It's Fiber versus Daniel, double off the sides,
super blocking with the bailout,
enough boost in the tank to make the push here.
Zinina must start another setter and another goal to end RG.
Just play a little bit of pinball with Atomic diving down in.
It bounces around, tilt, 3-1 now to NRG, atomic with his third goal of the series.
The same story over and over again.
Unfortunately for Power, you really gotta get back into it.
Soon down by 2-0, make it 3, beast mode.
It's gonna shut them down.
Well, you can say on one hand, you kinda gotta throw caution in the wind.
It doesn't matter how many goals you give up.
up if you don't score any of your own well it could the power's gonna stop
the bleeding gear get anything they can out of game four I'll set the back
flip by atomic NRG try to pour it on here and that's a bit uncharacteristic
to I mean normally they'll just kind of have that iron grip on a gamer series
And then they'll just do it in the shell and put it away as well get everything you can here out of Game 4
Beespo looking for more to his belly
And energy of runaway with a quenching game
OCE potentially Brazil they're going all over the world to show everybody why they are
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champions
energy e-sports
Four goals, so 35 on the clock,
how hard they have tried their absolute hardest.
And it looked like they were on the way to doing so,
but once they were at the top,
they just weren't able to hold on.
As they hung around with NRG for a while,
they were that kind of annoying little club
that just won't go away.
And then, no fly swatter came out.
And the reigning world champions
are up and running here.
the Boston Mandela Pogo to set this up and Guts will sweep that away from the
backboard. Nothing more being added to the highlight reel for NRG it would see
and they'll have to settle for only a 5-1 win to close out game 4 and a 3-1 win in
the series. Oh no, 5-1 close it out. My lobster is too buttery. My steak too juicy. NRG only
three to one. Can't can't have it all. They do drop a game. They're running real
champs to the squad from Oceania. They did the region proud here in this first
series and you know again it's in theory it gets easier from here right
in the pajamas five peers left in the group. This is still a team that could
go two and one and make things real interesting and add. Oh absolutely this
This is not a team to be discounting by any means.
And you can see it too.
OCE has some of the strongest mentalities
I've seen out of anybody in the world.
Even despite the loss, they still
do their fist bumps with smiles on their face,
proud of the performance that they
were able to get here in that round.
So it's power dropping to NRG.
Daniel scores four times.
Atomic scores three.
Beast mode gets three as well.
And NRG kick off the group at 1-0.
Leaf is standing by with the man himself, Daniel.
Standing by with Leaf.
NRG got it done in the end there,
but there was a bit of a speed bump along the way, Daniel.
Congrats on the first win of the Boston Major for you guys.
Thank you.
You guys sound like you had something to say there.
Yeah, I would say it was an interesting series.
It took a little bit to star.
And then, like, mid-series got kicked out randomly.
So, yeah, that's very interesting.
It's interesting to say, Elise, I also
want to talk about on the alt-stream way
that Ninjas and Bejamas also having a bit of trouble
going in over times against Five Fears as well.
So both sides here having a bit of a slow star.
Do you think that's just naturally
what's going to happen at the beginning of an event
like that?
Or do you think there's like a larger systemic thing
happening with Rocket League and the teams?
Yeah, I think that's a combination of a slow star
and also like these things are so really good
and they're getting better at each major.
So yeah, I think it's a little bit of both.
And has that, I guess, dampened your spirits?
I saw you yesterday walking around, you're smiling.
Like, you're just having a good time at these events.
When it comes game day and you notice,
okay, teams are a little bit closer than we hope,
does that kind of bring your mood down to more serious
or do you try to keep that happiness through?
Uh, I mean, we're just gonna be more locked in
on game days anyways, so we're gonna be serious,
but I mean, we try and have fun too, so yeah.
Before I let you go, can you give me any insights for, I guess, NRG going now that you know the rest of the games you have to play?
Do you guys already have a game plan of what you're doing after the series to get ready for the next one?
Or is it kind of the same as you've always done for other events?
I mean, yeah, we're just going to go chill. I think we're going to have another warm-up scrim.
And yeah, we're just going to play how we always play.
Hey, well, how you play got it done.
So congratulations on the first one. I'm sure we'll be talking more in the future.
We've got a lot more rock league to get through going forward through day number one here at the Boston major
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Group A action started strong here in Boston for Day 1 power.
Over time in Game 3 they do secure a one game victory over NRG, but ultimately on the series NRG gets the job done, takes the overall W and starts off strong there in their group.
Welcome back to Boston, lots of action coming to you, full over the course of today, across two different streams. Make sure you've got the ultimate stream pulled up as well to catch all of the action here for the broadcast.
But NRG, we said it'd be 3-1.
I thought it'd be game one.
I forced you to say it would also be game one.
But I did call game one time out.
I think we'll see that a lot from every single team.
So we'll see how fans out for power.
They showed up occasionally and then NRG
finally closed that door like in game four.
They finally got the momentum going.
Again, a little flat early on,
especially from beast mode I think,
but Daniel, fantastic series.
Yeah, absolutely.
NRG, I think that's exactly the kind of series
you want to have starting out.
Power and really OCE teams in general.
I can catch you if you're sleeping.
Yeah, yeah.
You clearly not.
And I think that was a good warm up for power.
I think the rest of this group is much more win over them.
Much more win over them.
I mean, you felt like power.
You were hot on this team on the pre-show.
I think this moved the needle for you at all.
I mean, they played exactly how I expected them to play.
Nice and simple.
Nothing too much to do it.
I mean, they forced NRG to two overtime, I believe.
I believe this game number two went overtime.
And then our one game number three in overtime.
So you got this great world champions over time, two times
in the first series.
And we know NRG, they do like to start off slow.
I guess you might be able to argue that by just
really thinking as a quality power squad.
And then you look at NIP on the other, on the beach dream,
they played against five years.
They went over time again, number two of them as well.
So power playing this good against NRG,
I think it's over 12 for that big match up
coming up tomorrow.
Yeah, we saw game four though.
Finally just got out of hand a bit.
Some excuse by the OCE boys,
but all the energy is going to capitalize on those for sure.
And they kind of ran away with it.
And this is what we maybe expected a little bit earlier
in the match, maybe in that game three.
But it didn't happen.
Power was fighting, but they will fall to 0-1 in the group.
Ninjas and pajamas also get the job done over five years.
That one was a sweep.
So SSA starting off on the back foot,
but they'll have to look to regain later on in the day
to look at the face off against Power.
Ninjas and pajamas will also face off against NRG
before the end of our broadcast here today.
We'll have country tomorrow.
I mean, we've already clenched someone in.
My energy and energy as whoever wins is going through.
That'll be a team up.
That'll be a winner in.
Let's talk about group D. We're not
going to move over to group D action and play around one
here.
Gentlemates versus TSM, made in Brazil versus Shopify.
I mean, we said there's a group of life, a group of death
here, Bates.
This is group D. How would you label this one?
It's a group of Schmedian.
Schmedian.
Schmedian.
Schmedian.
I mean, it's just got a good quality team here, man.
You got gentlemates they just took down Carmine Corp in a regional or open number three in EU
You got rebellion. That's the one team that the marshes they what was that one word?
It wasn't that screws I don't
There's the fine as you don't know what you expect because they're unpredictable. There's not consistent
That's what a billion is at the moment. Yeah, Brazil. George or bezel is looking pretty decent over there and Sam
and you got TSM, and he's got picked up.
Yeah, TSM did just get picked up.
And I made in Brazil, you know, I do want to focus on them.
Because I think a lot of people obviously
expect Uri to be here, but notably Team Secret,
not here this time at Nomada, no Trufino.
And so, made in Brazil, there's some familiar faces.
Some we haven't seen in a while.
Estromic, in particular, in South America
was really competitive regionally this season.
There were literally four strong teams.
The two that didn't make it, Amethyst, who
were threatening to be that number two seed.
The only reason they don't is because they lost two hard game sevens to made in Brazil this team
They are an underdog, but I think a sleeper for a lot of play
We're talking about depth we were talking about depth in North America
South America also starting to have depth with teams that have players that international fans know of who don't make it to the major
Because there's that many good players in South America made in Brazil gonna be the representatives here in group D for Sam
This is what's happening over on the alternate stream if you want to watch that gentle mates versus TSM match
Make sure you head over to twitch.tv slash RLE sports to catch that match live
That's going to be starting right now, folks.
We got five more matches here in the mainstream
before we close out day one in Boston.
Still waiting to see NRG face out here at Carming Corps
versus Twisted Pines.
Big match is coming up a little bit later on today.
But let's talk about the match in front of us.
We were just talking about them.
Let's get on more deep conversation
given the matchup they have in front of them.
Made in Brazil, taking on Shopify Rebellion here.
Plain regionally being strong.
Regionally, Jorbey's one thing.
Being strong internationally, an entirely different ballgame.
And if you want to look at the other side of the coin,
sure they were by they were by far better than Sam 3 and 4 but who they
worked better than was Furia they faced them a couple of times lost couldn't
win more than a game against them so it's still kind of thinking about that top
dog and we know how Furia have been internationally still you're talking
about Ra's bull coming back we know he's gonna form on land I'm excited
really to see sad and a straw mack again because it's been so long yeah
since then two and a half years yeah especially for a straw mack we saw sad
even more recently than we've seen a straw mack because he was playing for
secret last year in Raleigh so maybe maybe you can follow it back I might be
getting that next up. Either way it's okay. It doesn't matter I think that you know this
team might be being slept on a little bit and just talking to some of the pros I
think a lot of people were like you know made in Brazil actually yeah good in
script so I think you gotta watch out for this team. Well this group is very
interesting because I feel like it is very top-heavy you know the same reason you
talked about oh it has an EU2 seed and an NA2 seed and a SAM2 seed so
everyone's like all right we know our top two main Brazil was that wild
They didn't take down fury and I think that is a demerit even for them
Yeah, and so we'll have to see when they're going up against this international competition
But they are the true wild card that could disrupt this entire group
The last thing I want to say about them is like if you look at the South American statistics
You can't find them leading in any statistical category individually
No one even inside the top 10 in goals per game, but they're close and so they work together really well
And I think if anything is gonna help you internationally, it's your team chemistry
That will help put you over the edge.
Well, they got a big challenge in front of them here.
The first regional champs of North America of the 2026 season.
Shopify Rebellion won that major, or won, excuse me,
won that regional in-person on-land in Copenhagen
at the kickoff weekend.
So very experienced veteran players for 2-thirds of this roster.
And then Kofa, a proven land veteran as well at this point.
I mean, they had an opportunity to really just show
that they were going to be the number one team coming
on North America, coming out of Copenhagen.
And then when they went up against Carmine,
for the five spots.
Oh, well, they didn't get to call my Corp on them.
They didn't go off the SSB.
Oh, man, we're at really cool.
No, no, no, no, no.
The finals.
The finals.
I thought, oh, yeah, I've heard everything about First Kill.
That's right.
I'm really going to get out of here.
And then they got swept.
That's that Corp away.
And then they got swept in that series.
And I'm like, what happened?
I said, I expect more.
And it ever since then, honestly, it's kind of been on the downward strength.
Talking to boys.
That's how you referred to these years.
Yeah, talking about that fight, you sucked them as the second best team in
And that's the marriage on the team of this cow.
You got first kill, you got open, you got coach,
beat, beat, world two time world champions, all right.
And you're not getting the results that you want.
And this has always been that conversation for first killer.
He's the best in NA.
He puts up numbers.
He, again, for the entire split was the best player.
And that's what happens online split.
He carries his team to a number two seed in NA.
He does this all the time.
It just comes down to when we get to the weekends
is normally when he falters.
But in group stages, he does very well.
He normally takes out good European teams like K-Corp twice last year.
So watch out for rebellion.
They can make some noise here.
I mean, genuinely, LJ and First Killer,
I'm not really worried about them until we get to play off time,
because that's where we really start seeing them fall apart.
So I absolutely agree with you there.
I think this matchup also bodes well with them,
because if you look at First Killer and LJ's stats against teams in South America,
especially doesn't look really good for South American teams.
So this is a great first start for rebellion
if you're trying to start on the right foot.
I mean, you're talking about historically though,
but I'm talking about right now.
And at the moment, if you're a shopkeeper,
I don't know, it might feel a little,
it's not guaranteed because that's hard.
The way that they attack, I know we have BP
doing 55 million interviews,
acting Copenhagen talk.
We asked him about the game plan,
he always says he never wants to talk about it.
And that was useless.
I need something.
Because I was watching the game plan and I wasn't seeing it.
Their office of aggression that it feels
like they're a lot of boom clears a lot like they give a lot of people space and
they're not really setting the tone they don't make you fear them at all
especially with the type of players that yeah and if you're a maiden Brazil right
here man a couple quick punches a couple counter attacks or maybe they might
even have more offense then shop are going that's all kind of inclined to
think if that happens that's awesome trouble they have they have a talent I
think you I think you hit the nail in the head base you just knock them off
balance for a second and then like lj just starts solo dribbling the ball
out first killer is still rotating as well and kofa who's been playing a lot more
and he's really attacking a lot of demos every day up front live here on as a
first killer right yeah first killer is now that tip of the spear and he's getting
the most demos on the team this team is still demo heavy and everyone's like
oh it's because they have kofa but it's not him he's playing a defense first
killer is now leading that charge going for demos being that first man so
really gonna come down to me like a first-killer explains game and not like I
kind of like that because first-killer is so good on the ball that you want him
near the ball and let Kofor have some space it might work I think it will
work in this matchup I just don't know if it'll work when we get to play out is
that is that the key to victory then shutting down first killer keeping him
grounded or is it more like making the counterattacks work first of all
shutting down first-killer good luck yes yeah he's gonna have his way one way
or another I do think I do think though it's making LJ and Kofor
uncomfortable and then forcing first killer to have to do too much if you can do that and like maybe it
is through demos or maybe it's just through a fast attack however they decide to do it I think
trying to find a way to knock them off balance early does give uh made in brazil a really good
shot in this game I mean I do think it's a great strategy for VP put your newest uh least
experienced player but also who's probably the freshest most mechanically gifted player on the
team in the third man role let him find don't let him have as much space as possible the two
two veterans go field break up the offense
and he's got as much space as possible to work with.
But if they're able to get on that back line here,
break cover up, it might be a deal breaker
for this offensive structure on the Shopify.
I mean, yeah, that could be in trouble.
And also it's gonna be hard to score, man.
Cause teams that have sat on it,
they usually play great defense.
I mean, like they just really hold down the back line
and strong make these those rather deep things on.
And then you got the bull, man.
You performed it in A for what, two years?
Yeah.
And now he's back in Semi,
he's performing the same Friday that,
right now. So experience wise, both teams have that. Execution wise, I think both teams
have that. I know shopover boys are seed. They're expected to win, but I just think it's going
to be a really tight series.
It's just so impressive. Like Razebull, he goes back to Sam that was completely dominated
last year by Fury and Team Secret. They literally beat everyone all the time. Then
they do a roster swap. So you expect it's going to be the same thing again. Fury
and Team Secret are going to dominate. But Razebull goes back to Sam, builds a brand
new team basically and finds his way back in a huge and again it's it's a much
stronger South American region like you go back and you look at the opens you
maybe make the argument that amethyst should be here but the only reason that
they're not is because fury of lost in semis on the opposite side of the
bracket in open two which allowed MIBR to move through the bracket play team
secret who they didn't lose against in the playoffs all split and that's what
got them here so it's much more competitive and MIBR beat amethyst
both times they played them in the playoffs.
So they absolutely deserved to be the two seed here,
but it was against strong competition.
This isn't two teams dominating a region.
This is them literally squeaking in to that number two seed.
A much stronger team.
Yeah, there's four teams in the sand that exactly be here.
But, I mean, you said like, oh, they squeaked in,
like they somehow got lucky.
But you just talked to me about how well they
beat Seeker in a moment when they had to beat him.
They got the opportunity.
Fury of Falter created an opening,
and MIBR was the team of those three
who stepped up and actually took advantage,
and it took the games by the reins
and they've earned this spot.
So what a story to build on here in day one
if they could take out Shopify.
Yeah, absolutely.
And convincing games against Secret as well.
So like, I think that a lot of people coming in,
you know, if you don't really watch South America,
the regionals, you think, okay,
MIBR, the Sam 2C, they don't really do well.
You just start looking at like how Sam 2Cs
have done in the past.
But as you've pointed out, the bull.
And as we have pointed out before,
Astromic, Sam 2C, what is Sam 2C playing well
all right here?
Yeah, well, and they're gonna continue to play well.
I think Sam is a region in general,
internationally have really played poorly over the last year.
So I think it's fair to be like, well,
South America hasn't been strong,
so I'm not really going to give them a chance in this series.
And again, you look at first killer in LJ's record
against Samteens.
It doesn't look good for them,
but I do think it's a bit different this time around
for South America.
And I do think one thing that's kind of different
about South America compared to the larger regions
that are able to send more teams here
is that oftentimes in kind of the smaller regions,
we feel like the number one seed is
the team we take most seriously.
And then if they have a second seed, it's
like the team that just kind of got the tag along.
It feels like there's a big gap between number one
and number two.
Notably, I think South America has not
been that way for years now.
It's been kind of 1A1B from South America.
Furious to have that number one spot.
Sometimes they'll have a little bit of an edge,
depending on the year.
But number two, I mean, I go back all the way
to crew at San Diego when we had the first San Diego
major, and the D from the crew made there.
Like, South America number two seed has always
had the opportunity to create some upsets.
And this match is two-two, because mates are the clear
number one in the screw.
obviously the fans of Rebellion know what they do.
So you expect mates to very likely go 3-0 in this group,
but this is your C2 and 3, and then you have TSM as well,
who expected to go 0-3.
So this match, literally,
well, he's a playoff match at this point,
because who wins is, like, if it goes that way,
then we know who our two seed is.
So it's a very important early on
on this first day to get this win.
We're still waiting on the players to make sure
that they're all setting the lobby.
We'll get to get started as soon as we possibly can here.
Jordan, I mean, for people who,
you watch a lot of South American Rock,
League and for a lot of fans, you end up just kind of watching the region you live in
locally. And while all of the games are available online to play, it's a lot of rock league to
watch. Yeah. For the people who haven't taken the time to watch South American Rock League,
what makes it different? What's fun about watching South America compared to watching
other. I mean, just every, every single player comes in with passion. They all like you
get them on camera and it's just, it's very clear that, you know, they all love
the game. Every player playing this game loves the game, but you just, it emanates
from them a little bit more and I think South American game play has really evolved with
the field.
It used to be the aggressive region.
They go for every challenge.
They go for every mechanic like that was the thing that blew people away initially about
South America was their mechanical aggressive prowess.
They're not really that way anymore.
They kind of went back and got defensive last especially last year very defensive.
Now they've evolved and it's much more we attack and defend together.
It's not we're just aggressive.
We challenge every ball.
We we work with the flow of the game, which I think is much more of the
Modern approach but the NA and EU solid approach of we attack. We do everything together. It's not I play back
You do this it's or even on defense. We just slam ourselves at the ball
It's no we take it next step next moment
Communication and chemistry is above all else and I think that's what's helped has what it's helped
Turn it into a 14 region rather than just a two team region
If you had to pick one word to define South American rock elite
What would that word be resurgence resurgence? Okay?
On the desk for this one right
Suspiciously put on many South American segments. Yeah, I mean, I'll just say yeah, that's what we do
That's just the plan
It's gonna be interesting because again rebellion coming into this they have to boot camped and all that and people are very down on them
Everyone thinks they're the NA 3c some even say NA 4c, but I think people are overhyped in space. They think me and me
I'd agree with that but
rebellion
They've not looked amazing over these last two opens
But honestly that doesn't really matter when you come to land first killer again
Sure, he has his problems on the final day, but before that he's usually one of the best players at every land
He goes to so I expect him to perform. I mean every keep in mind when we're saying like oh, they don't come in the strongest
Yeah, you know in region with vertus pro and NRG. Yeah two teams that were no
I don't hear that nonsense because I'm we went to the season
It's not a haters be giving out the facts you come ahead as much as you want
I'm not here giving out the details
You can't bring up vertus pro all of a sudden you came into the season with two teams on your mind
And our gene rebellion and vertus bro has passed up rebellion. They're not on NRG's level
You don't think Virtus.Pro over the course of this entire split have actually earned the
respect with the results that they've gotten?
I mean, I've earned the respect.
Maybe you're a bellion.
You don't want them to have it.
But I'm trying to argue for your team right now.
I'm saying, because we're saying, like, oh, they came in kind of weak.
But I think that when you compare it to the competition they had to play against,
it can be misleading to how weak they actually are coming in and out of the group.
I thought North America is looking great, right?
And that's because the rebellion might play the third best team here.
Yeah.
Right?
So that is false.
like saying like, Oh, rebellion there.
They're, they're maybe in the third, maybe in the fourth strongest team.
That's more of a statement of how strong the teams are.
That has not gotten any worse and is still maybe not.
He doesn't want to be the fourth best.
He doesn't want to be.
He's not saying he is.
I'm saying that the rest of the teams have gotten so good that there's a
chance that he might be the fourth best right now.
Folks, let us know what you think is going to win in the fan vote down below.
We'll make our picks on the desk as well.
Jorbey, we've done a lot of talking and I know you really love these
South American boys.
Do they have it against a day one week day FK?
I gotta say when we're doing our predictions earlier today, I was thinking a lot with my head and not enough with my heart, but the more I talked about it, I think it's talked myself into it, because I know where the rest of y'all are going here, so I'm going made in Brazil.
I think we're gonna have our first upset.
Really?
I think it's right here.
Really?
You, Sam, reasonable picks.
Congratulations.
You, all right.
Okay.
Fair enough.
I think Rebellion's ready.
They boot camped.
I think this is gonna be a demolition.
It is gonna be a 3-0 to be 12 goals.
That's true.
3-0?
Well, the first killer is gonna show up and he's gonna be like we are a contender to win this major
It's not because it made in Brazil. It's first goes you talk 12 to 2. Okay. Yeah, it's
These a 12 to 2 and 12 to 3
I'll say this like I said, I'm sorry I said enough. Give me rebellion. Give me rebellion
I do think the match is gonna be close to a couple of over times probably go gain number 5
Jordan might be correct with this one. I we thought about energy being a team that starts slow kind of a
High horsepower below torque engine it takes them a long time to get going. This is the exact opposite
This is a little e-bike. They're gonna be moving so fast shop of ice gonna come out of the gate so quickly here
I do think I don't think it'll be 12 to 2 but I do think it will be a sweet
Have people in favor of shots fire shop fire button on one side made in Brazil on the other end of the air and it comes up
Shop of fire of belly and that's fine. It's already over one. That's fine. I have that one the coin
Yeah, that is gonna get it had it had its one to start off the day and now it's gonna try and get it back here
85-15. 85. They had 12. That's it. That's it.
Yikes. It is also, I mean, the North Americans are awake and ready to go.
Lots of fans in chat. Let's play some broccoli, folks.
15% believe in Made in Brazil. They believe in themselves.
100% here. Can they get it done in the groups?
What is effectively a playoff match here?
They're trying to play in front of Esports greatest fans.
Made in Brazil versus Shopify Rebellion.
I think this one is going to come down to who comes out the gate swinging it's important
to get these wins early in the group stage we'll see what both these teams got game one
My progressive, live now.
Go for it.
He has been really at the vanguard
of that new wave of talent North America
looking to make waves first in this game one,
almost getting a look,
but well-dependent off the backboard.
Now, LJ attacking, this is dangerous,
low boost for Raze Bulls, couldn't get much of a clear.
I get some support from Astro.
Raze Bulls keeping an eye,
he's still staying on that back wall,
a little boost. Just trying to have some leeway give sad and strong mix leeway to get in position.
Here's Colfery in. I wanted to get a foot reset playhead. First kill in midfield but it didn't work out.
Still lots of boots here for Shopify Rebellion. Thank you from LJ. He's actually pinched back
and Colfery trying to manage it. Flip reset pushing it forward. Astro there but it's
ping ponging around as LJ takes it upfield and gets the corner boost steal. LJ looked
Looks like he was trying to land a buff on Astro.
Yep.
Couldn't land it.
Now a shot from-
Oh!
Go fuck down the main!
What an opener here for MIBR.
I like the touch there from Sad to leave it to Astro.
Then he, another pass that Pass is so plain to get to the full.
It was, to have the vision to see it, but also the execution, it was so well placed.
The speed was there.
Red, Razeful, line that shot up.
Now he's he kick off Strats and it goes right to first killer could be a quick
response that being bullied up the ball but first killer loses possession.
Yeah kind of uncharacteristic there for first killer. You normally expect him to
be able to put that on. Especially after what Gibbs was saying. Right now we'll see
if Rebellion can kind of get things started here. Look at a bit shaky Astro looking
for the double first killer reddit though. Good positioning on the backboard.
Sad in reverse. We'll have to hit this hall to the corner and you can see him chase that
down. Didn't get as much power to the corner as he wanted. That shot on
We've seen Shopify Rebellion Force made a Brazil back, but the defense is there, the composure there.
You can see Astro even jumping over that demo attempt from behind does get demoed eventually.
And now First Killer lays off, leaves that corner, who's gonna have to bail out of the play.
And you wanna see First Killer get going here.
So far, Kofa just really doing a good job kind of leading here in the offense.
He's been able to get the ball down to a very effective place, but now there's a scoring position.
I'll talk about those all-ball plays, James.
But you're seeing some shaky plays there from Main of Brazil.
Look promising with Raze Goal having all that boost.
Now they find themselves defending once more Astro.
Walt get a nap touch, but you see Chopped by Rebellion
always getting that extra touch, hoping someone's
going to be there for the cleanup,
but no one's there to take the shot.
And defensively, though, it might be
our doing a good job holding on.
And that's following for some of the bait setups.
They're taking their time.
Let the play come to him.
Astro's just trying to force that clear.
She's sad all the way back, kind of ready.
It might be hard to make sure they don't lose their boost
possession, but you gotta watch out.
First killer!
Oh!
Oh, yeah!
Taking matters into his own hands.
This was all first killer.
Denied the clear attempt.
It's a tough read off the arc of the ceiling as well.
Astro was waiting for the shot, but still the shot.
Too well placed, too powerful.
And chopper fly Rebellion.
Finally convert on all that possession.
It's a tough save there for Ashram and seeing that position,
like I said, first killer able to put that in the perfect spot.
Exactly what Reveillean needed in that moment.
But can they find some consistency on offense?
Still feels like it's anybody's game here.
And at the same time, though, Shafakai Reveillean
has had more of the looks, more time.
It makes Brazil's half.
Here's another pass up to LJLJ.
Jason, this downflip reset to the backboard.
Aster tries to get a clear out, set back in.
The defense being tested over and over and over again.
Made it to Brazil.
Surviving for now.
That shot off the board.
You can hear the glaring.
And now Saddle taking this down the needle.
Good defensive read from Saddle.
Expecting the ball to play high.
He jumped off that crossbar.
And then again, just reads it perfectly to get the stop.
But still don't look at rebellion,
holding on to that possession.
First killer trying to find that double to get it center.
And Saddle, there yet again to clean it up.
Saddle had to leave this.
Can't chase that ball down.
No boost.
LJ half the tank to work with.
First killer trying to land a demo. There's the pass over first killer getting a piece of it. Now kofir will have some space to work
Airborne reset
Close the trigger early gets an extra tip-tap
And the rebellion keep going to it give the ball to kofir let him work
He gets the flip so early able to get it past two defenders and LJ in a perfect spot
Well rebellion are able to feed LJ
He can really make threatening shots or target and you can see how turtled up made in Brazil is in net
giving the space now. Is he a kickoff strat?
Struggle turn backs even getting a pulse, but you can see two in the corner now who made Brazil a little bit of awkward defense
They break out makes the race will race full
But you have LJ to the back wall clears it up the gut and she called for her with that free flip touch
trying to slow down any made in Brazil counter attack.
They're awkward there for Astro, but Grace Bowl will get it to the side while LJ's so quick to bring it back to him.
Just kind of holding on to possession. It might be our taking their time.
The thoughtful move in the front. Now Astro looking for the double.
Astro!
Oh, that was a big, a beauty!
And Grace Bowl, he cuts around one, gets the pass out into the middle as well.
Well, and then the play from Estromic to go for the double tap.
He saw LJ was grounded, and you got to be perfect on that shot.
Doesn't brush it either.
Doesn't just take a shot right away.
The confidence was there.
Late in game one as well.
30 seconds remaining.
And like I said, still anybody's game.
After a look for another double,
this one will be LJ to make the stop.
Now Rebellion, if they want to end this in regulation,
they got to get moved.
Ooh, LJ got the mid boost.
Has a lot of room here, but sad, good, stop.
It might be our cameras. I spent very dangerous games.
Rebellion hasn't been able to stop it.
Man, that was so good from Astro to be able to get the touch
and the corner boost.
This is put in Brazil in the rebellion half.
One more chance to end this in regulation.
It's knocked down, still bouncing.
Sad has Astro in the middle.
Sad out the boost, though.
Still up.
Raise ball out to the middle.
Let's try it.
It's just up.
Oh, he pulls off.
The ball and culprits.
Look at that.
Look at him.
Astro, going for the side.
No, he got it happening.
He's chasing it.
There's a devil in the place.
First kill is kicking it up.
He's half over mid.
He dies.
When it gets over, first kill is kicked out.
But it's flying off the corner from Nella.
We are still going.
Double commit for rebellion.
Half-time to first kill him.
Astro breaks up the play.
Graceful trying to get a 50.
Sadie's low boost.
And we finally have overtime.
You got to commit it.
You got to respect it.
Both these teams wanted to finish that game right there, right now.
This is what the Major is all about.
No fear from either side.
Made in Brazil, and Shopify Rebellion are squaring up.
He's going to have to edge.
First killer with space, so dangerous.
And the full stop went over.
Sad.
Come here and cut it out.
And Wraith will perfectly position you on the back wall,
but the pressure's still eager.
And LJ was able to pop it up and over.
Sad, stay behind it for 50.
Pitches it downfield, first killer.
It's the Booth.
Pass the ball.
Pushing it out towards the mid.
We'll go for another touch on it.
And it's the mid Booth as well.
There's a demo, LJ.
It's not in the play.
Sad, gets that with the roof.
First killer, first sash, drub here in the corner.
That Vicky goes to race bull though.
He's going to go up the ladder.
Cold for her to meet him.
Ball's still on that orange in.
Here's B.
Big B. Now first killer, it's room to work.
7 boots, gets to pass out to the middle, the 10-4 block!
Somehow, cut out!
Made it Brazil, stay alive for now!
But Shot of My Rebellion, getting more chances.
Pits pass again, LJ couldn't get support there.
Maybe they were thinking LJ was going to take the shot himself.
He looked like it, but sad.
He just had so many great cuts.
There's not so many threats in Shot so far of this game.
MIBR trying to get their way.
And first killer of the rest of Rebellion
have done a great job winning that space in the midfield.
How long can the NIVR make these defensive stops?
They need to put something threatening
on target on offense.
Astro breaking up that clear intense weak shot.
We'll be right to raise bull, raise bull.
Taking his time off his back wall.
Sees sad on the sideline, but first killer breaks up
the play, however sad.
Moves to Astro.
Astro trying to keep the ball close.
Steals the corner boost, almost lands the demo.
Race bull trying to get Kofra off the ball,
and it makes him awkward here.
Ball out to the middle.
And LJ will boom it to get some breathing room
from the belly and now Kofor has the ball as well.
Stealing fast, lands a demo, steals the ball,
no he doesn't steal the corner.
SLJ, oh that's nothing to see on the goal line
but low boost for May to Brazil.
Yeah they've been low boost but look at them,
you see these touches, they're a little desperate
to get to the ball.
They've been diving, not necessarily super strong
and now the belly and have been able
to kind of control the pace and win the possession.
It might be a half the start takes in your time
when they get this ball.
I know it's a fast paced game
But if they throw things too far forward,
they can lose possession and end up losing the game.
And you saw that just happen with Sad's touch.
Could have kept that closer.
Could have made that more threatening attack.
Now hard backward bounce.
Sad gets a touch over one.
Astro trying to keep that close yet again,
putting pressure on Razebulb.
Go first.
Challenge attempt.
Astro not much boost.
Will still go for the reset.
And first killer will collect it.
OK, look at first killer though, taking his time.
It's a flick, but not pass the ball.
Good stop.
Want to keep this in play.
Raise ball.
Trying to get that center.
LJ and Kofir double committed.
Works out.
But Kofir no moves here.
So he's going to take his time trying to force a 50.
50 does work out momentarily.
But raise ball now on the ball.
Three-ball finish it.
No.
Team jumped straight down off the ball.
Maybe not what raise ball was looking for.
However, mid of Brazil do have a foot
in the rebellion half.
But now another shot.
We straight up the gun.
Kofir catches.
Play reset.
Pushing forward again, we saw him land that reset pass earlier,
did result in that rebellion goal,
but made in Brazil they're holding on for now.
However, first killer goes for Flick, heavy Flick.
LJ, LJ, LJ, LJ stills it high, and Rachel gets a 10.
Oh, that's not the best touch from Astrosat.
Nailed him out, but first killer was quick enough on a win.
First killer, bang!
First killer with a stunner will end this stunning game one.
Double to the top corner and rebellion.
I mean, they get the finish James, but man, did they have to work for it?
I don't think anybody expected MIBR to come out of the gate as heavy as they did.
You know, I don't know if you had your coffee at or if you're away, but if not, if you
weren't before this game, you are awake now.
The adrenaline alone from the zero second ball was enough to wake you up.
Even the overtime back and forth, the tug of war that we saw squaring up landed blow after blow.
But then, you know, I guess Gibbs, every once in a while knows what he's talking about.
First killer almost throwing up a thousand points.
And not only that, but the quality of the gold, you could see that first killer brought that extra level.
And that is what helped get rebellion over the edge.
Yeah, but I mean, the ball, he looks really good.
Yeah, very good game one for him.
I think, sad defensively, again, lots of big stops.
Astro was incredible with his first goal.
So you're seeing what MIBR can bring to the table now.
And again, rebellion, even though they have so much
talent, MIBR is making it so hard for them to score,
which means that they have to put in a little bit more work
and be more consistent on the ball.
And one thing I loved about Razeball's game
was how good he was on the sidewall, especially
breaking out of his own half.
You saw many times, whether it was
landing a perfect victory or on that one goal,
where he was able to cut around the first challenger
and then beat the second that set up the goal
for Made in Brazil.
Raze Bull was so good when he could get that possession
off the side wall.
So we'll see if Raze Bull can continue to make an impact.
Rebellion seemed to have to upper hand that game.
They had the majority of possession.
They had a lot of looks.
But Made in Brazil were right alongside of that whole way.
Almost play there to start us off in game two.
So much energy, so much adrenaline in game one.
Can you keep that up for the rest of the series?
Who's going to run out of gas first here?
Both teams so desperate to get an early start here
in these best of vibes.
Also, no timeout used here by MIBR.
So we'll keep things going here.
We'll see how things change.
Raise ball here.
Except for what's all happened.
Kofir, look at the crash.
Instant.
Kofir doing a good job of crashing that play,
not giving the time to make it Brazil,
making them feel like they've
Got to hit it quick, hit it Brazil.
It happened.
It struggled with just a bit in terms of possession
compared to Rebellion.
We're trying to change that now.
Sad.
No boost to get back to it.
Does land a bump.
But LJ still gets a hand up.
Ooh, dangerous ball across the box though.
A fake challenge from Sad.
Comfort will try to get this out.
A good challenge from Astro.
We'll put it back in.
Slow boost.
We had boost in that position.
Could have been a goal there for MIBR
to start things off again.
Now we end up seeing possession here, sad, on top of the ball, first killer.
Aqua touching slow boost, look at Razebull, perfect place in the midfield to pop it up,
but he can't hold on to it, LJ there to force him back,
he's getting a little awkward from MIBR to move upfield.
Now LJ threatening to bump on Razebull, Razebull navigates the bump,
how do you, a decent amount of boost to get around that bump, it's in from LJ though.
However, made for Zill yet again stopping these threatening positions from Rebellion.
Race Bull with a chance here. Airborne, flip reset. Back behind it.
GOALS FOR THE BUSTY!
Like the idea that the BUSTY from Race Bull is trying to throw off the defense.
They force a double commit.
But MIBR unable to hold on to the ball. That touch though from LJ.
Not intentional. You can see Kulfer a little awkward. He had to go back.
Now MIBR will take this ball.
It's important for both of these teams to really get some structure on offense.
There's a flip-recept play.
Razeball kind of waiting to get involved.
There's a shot on the first killer.
Pretty good.
Really nice touch there from first killer.
And it was a bump as well.
Sab, landing on the back, getting in the way of the defense.
Getting a bit of a gap for Maita Brazil to work with.
Now we're seeing much more offensive opportunities for Maita Brazil.
Razeball, tap over to Astro, Astro, nice touch.
Will control it, stays behind him.
The first killer get breaking up the play.
It seems like first killer is everywhere.
Yeah, this is such an improvement from Game 1.
He was a little awkward.
Didn't get the best touches.
But now he's been very efficient on the ball,
especially in that defensive bit,
cutting out anything in my VR bring-up field.
He's going to cut out Razeball here.
Look, it's perfect ball that over who just
picked up the corner boots.
Oh, but that is scary touch.
You can see Oscar was diving at it.
And it did get made of Brazil off the ball,
thinking maybe he'd have it.
But that touch off the ceiling really making things tough.
They're trying to stabilize, and First Killer will run out of boost, but LJ will have possession.
Taking it up the side wall, has Kofor in the middle, flip reset, trying to go for it all himself.
Rebound is stopped by Sad, and First Killer will poke it up to the corner.
Yeah, but look at this, Kofor and LJ kind of bringing up all of it.
Now, First Killer kind of in the back, just keeping the play alive.
They both wished for that low boost, and First Killer was able to hold things off for now.
another stop here on the defensive end but it is slowing up rebellion to attack
scoreless so far as to approach the final minute.
Sokoper falling off the ceiling with nothing in the tank puts pressure on
first killer to make play here.
But Sass, the field, Sass shot is wide and Colfer will take it off LG now tries to pass it up to him.
Colfer, backboard pass, reasonable, very important read and still cares for Sass as well.
But the ball falls right to Astro who gets the mid boost.
And first killer is out the play, he's low boost here.
This is a prime opportunity is Astro trying to get into that top left corner gets the double commit
But in my VR space for the time sad now with three second catch up to it
That's got just to a race ball a little slow
It's sad did so much getting that little extra touch throughout the defense raise ball with the challenge and Astro was there
the defense from rebellion methodically broken down piece by piece it might be on
the team that is going to push you when they have their opportunity my goodness
it's gonna be hard for you to get out of defense now rebellion playing for behind
30 seconds left the regulation copper lots of boost first killer steals the
corner as well solid start but sad breaks the play up in midfield does
he have the reset yes he does and that's gonna slow down this counter
attack for rebellion. They're 50 out to the middle.
Kulfer, light touch, tries to get the buff, but Raze-Pull dodges it, keeps it in the corner
and gets a hand up. Sad. Stays on the backboard.
Raze-Pull is a little awkward. Low boost here. Four made in Brazil. Last second chance.
The rebound hits the ground! And that is game! How close was that, Dad?
Very very I mean first killer if you just
Night and half a second earlier
He has a chance to put in a game time goal and we still be playing on ball hit the ground there
Wow
M.I.B.R. I mean they stole that game away rebellion had a lot of pressure, but when M.I.B.R. found
Listen it had to do with first killer
He was kind of playing a little bit more thought man that game too as soon as he went up for offense
And he couldn't score and they knew they had a low boost.
That's exactly when MIBR chose to strike,
and they went all in with a critical goal to win this game.
And just looking at the scoreboard as well,
five saves from Raze Bull, the Bull.
You know, when I think of players that are the kingdom
of South America, I think of Raze Bull.
He has been around dominating South America,
came to North America.
You know, there was a power vacuum
that was filled in his absence,
But he's returned to South America getting back to land once more this guy's a veteran as well
He has been around what's season 8?
Yes, and a long time and and he has always been a top contender and in this game
Five saves you look back at what raise bull had to do on defense. It was quite impressive
There was one play where LJ was chasing him all around
Raise bull somehow manages to get away from him and get the save raise bull a heck of a game and all around
Solid performance from made of Brazil and they tie up the series and now have a chance off kickoff
Last note about the ball, he's playing against some of the best players in the world.
And you can see it from the way that he's been able to make so many good stops, especially defensively.
Keep MIVR in this game.
We'll see if they can put this series on that point.
What a win! A game two!
But you know we're belly and we're hungry to get back on the board.
Oh, we're playing! This is one of those situations where they think Zed has it.
Zed has no boost.
The player underneath the ball as well, Astro. No boost.
Just awkward there.
Yeah.
If you saw it raceful, he could have cut in and went around,
but I think he's expecting saff.
He's got two teammates right there.
Right.
So he's like, OK, someone's going to pass him.
Let me get ready for that pass.
Unfortunately, no contact there.
Now, MIBR is starting to combine.
And that's a crazy start to the game,
especially with how contested each and every one
of these goals has been like pulling teeth trying to score.
Rebellion touching that break but now we see native Brazil trying to tie this one up.
However, Kofir will launch this ball out.
Rezbel picks up the corner boost, booms it to the side, but right to LJ who collects the ball so nicely.
They look like he had the flip.
Kept the ball close. Rezbel awkward as well.
You can see how far back Chopper by Rebellion on.
Yeah, he had enough time to use the flip.
Oh, Astro, that's a careful Kofir had a prime pump opportunity.
LJ up quick here now.
Rebellion trying to increase that score lead there by his pressure. This is when they look the most dangerous
It might be on me. I see Ray's boy
He's camp on that back wall leaving nothing open for a value to work with
Five saves last game
He was key to stopping rebellion in their tracks
Now sad with a huge beat picks up the mid-boost
Looking to the backboard around one baseball is there, but Colford gets the stop gets some help for LJ
Who's gonna try to 50 this up?
All in the center of the field, Kofor pokes it forward,
but it's to Novan's land.
The first killer will get a 50, but it still booms deep.
One for the double tap.
Looks like Astro had to read, but Kofor wasn't
going to let that bounce cleanly.
It'll move for boom.
Machine throwing her away, trying
to see if they can get a man downfield.
First killer got cut off.
Astro has midfield, has Saddle, the wing.
He's going to play the 50 toward him.
He's going to have a lot of boosts.
He's going to get this ball back to a Guardian.
No one's really able to control it at this point again.
Razeball playing it patiently.
It's up, reading first killer's hit nicely.
LJ, contest over Ash, with his shot.
It's all dis-sales over the defense.
I don't think Made of Brazil was expecting that shot from Kofir.
Yeah, you see Sad get on the back wall,
and he's trying to get off.
As soon as Kofir puts the shot on,
he just wasn't in a great position.
Good visual read from Kofir to see the defense and say,
OK, this is the part of the place that's
You can tell, sad. It was not where he wanted to be, rocking it in reverse, trying to get back into position, but was caught out.
We had the halfway point of this game. It's been a strong performance from Shopify Rebellion, very convincing.
Fencey has been flat on the other side.
Oh, Askelow, I can't get there in time.
Defense was broken apart, but now MIBR scoreless here,
facing a potential shutout.
They need to get something here on the board.
Otherwise, Belkin can run away with this game.
And I'm like, where is Askelow?
Picked the pocket, and off of one goal difference.
We've got a ball game now.
Raise both with the speed of the Culfur.
Not the touch he was looking for.
He was trying to control that ball a little bit closer pops off this car and that was immediately pounced on by made in Brazil
Give one with a lot of time here at this game so far so bearing up strap rebellion happy
But maybe with this kickoff strap they can make some magic happen. This one goes out racebook can't follow it
That though keeps it a play
So I have a follow-up over stays on top of the racebook with a demo that open the other way
It is. It'll be another goal here for rebellion 3-1 game.
Oh, I mean, I love the setup there, but when Raze Bull gets demoed,
that ball bounces out to the middle, Raze Bull lasts back.
You knew it was going to spell disaster when he was taken out.
And Shopify Rebellion quickly stabilized yet again.
Now, you want the kickoff strap falling apart.
What is in my VR? Come up with here.
So far, Rebellion, complete control, and looking like the Rebellion you expect to see coming
in this series.
He's all time left on the clock for the boys and blues.
All event, you'll pass the long shot, first killer!
What's got a hand on it?
Inker, still mounting though, but first killer, he is having a series.
He is.
Game two and three especially if they just rip first killer defensively and another stop for first killer long boost. How did he do it?
Oh it's sad. Thought he did it up. I thought sad did it up to get that goal.
The defense for Rebellion hold on. There's a ball off. It should be enough. It is enough.
And the Straviks will once more score for MIBR and they're within one once more.
What a touch from Sad, what a bunker and raise, boy, MIBR showing so much fight here
as they have not given up on this game, a minute six to go, and like I said, it's plenty of time.
MIBR above equalizer.
It's a good kickoff as well, right to Astro, who gets the mid-boost.
He'll try to get back to it for a 50, kicks out to the middle, Sad, far away from the play.
Kofor, demoed, and now back to the rebellion back wall, Kofor.
We're going to try to take this out to a 50 to LJ.
LJ, using up a lot of boost here, goes up and over,
is bumped as well.
Sidewall double.
Sad send it towards Neffat.
It's right to Kofir.
You can see in my VR, early challenges,
whenever a rebellion are in the air,
they're trying to take the ball away from them,
and they also know that they got a race against that clock.
Only 30 seconds left on that clock.
Time running out for men in Brazil.
Kofir, free ball up the gut, goes for the backboard,
put that shut down, rebound out to first killer, first killer,
tipping it up, maybe hoping for LJ,
but first killer will have to make a save.
Razeball putting that shot on target.
Final 10.
And Rebellion survived.
Oh, the pillow, they have Razeball.
He's pre-jumped, oh, but he can't get it to him.
And that should do it.
And will Rebellion finish game three
and now have the series on match point.
And that was not a pretty game, though.
You can see Rebellion in the beginning looked like they were going to run away from it, but some scrappy goals
Some advantageous bounces made of Brazil jumping on some stake that one missed touch from Kofir
Where they were able to get that free goal
But overall we saw first killer
I think once again rise above make some big plays for rebellion defensively
You saw him making some crazy saves that one shot from sad I thought was unsavable. Yeah, and somehow was kept out
That great defensive prowess there from first killer, of course, but at the same time MIBR does kind of feel like this game
Kind of got away from them in a way, right? They had that slow start. Think about it
If you don't get that situation with that first goal, this is a completely different game
Yeah, they were just playing from behind from the start
It was just tough for them to get into it. Oh and look at first killer being able to make that adjustment in the air getting back
To it and this was the play there first killer saving it off the post sad
So close to making that work
But made in Brazil find themselves
Just one game away from a loss that would be devastating
You heard the desk break it down before this Dazzarum, but this group group D
You got gentle mates rebellion made in Brazil in TSM. I think a lot of people projecting
gentle mates to 3.0 it but made in Brazil that dark horse that could upset Shopify rebellion in Brazil
No time out here going into game four. This is a must win game
Well, I would say almost every game in this group, depending on who you most win, you
see what they have in store.
Clearly they're feeling good going into this one, but they've got to stop Rebellion offensively.
They've been tough to deal with.
They also have to make sure they play their best ball and not have too many mistakes on their side.
So a couple mistakes are made in Brazil and Rebellion last game.
Chopped by Rebellion, we're able to pull through, sad, calling off his teammate.
Fall back to the middle, Astro stays grounded, this leaves some space for LJ.
Race Bull confidently staying on the back wall where it seemed like he has lived half the time in this series.
Falling back wall Bull, I mean he's just been tough to get beat when he's up there.
But it's been good though, it's been limiting Rebellion to the offense.
Because again, you can see how they play high ball,
flip reset, try to make something happen.
Maybe something double baseball stops all of that
when he's sitting on that network.
It's also so good at reading the play,
reading the intentions of the attack.
It's first killer once more,
who breaks through the MIPR defense.
At first kill, you give him a shot like that,
he's gonna sink it.
Sad, you were, it was going to.
Had a piece of it, got it position,
but not enough, it was just perfect for the place.
first killer double fake kickoff cover will take a shot right to uh raise blow who's waiting
the dimensions of the kickoff game evolving and that should be going in it does
it made it Brazil what's going on it looks like they're starting to fall apart a bit
I mean I'll tell you it's first killer he's he's again driving circles around them
When first killer is on, he looks like one of the best players in the world
and he has been elevating over the course of this series.
What a great start for him going into the major.
Two goal lead for Shopify Rebellion.
It looks like this series is in the pack for them if they can keep playing at this level.
They can keep made in Brazil back.
They brought it back.
They've made it Brazil.
Had a bit of a comeback last game.
Couldn't complete it.
They've brought it back.
Now Ragebull trying to kickstart to come back this game.
First killer out of boost.
Strumming.
Looking for a bump perhaps.
Let that ball leak out into the middle.
Sad.
Over a quarter double, but first killer breaks that up.
Now Ragebull has to try.
He's got to get past LJ.
Great stop from LJ.
Just finally getting boosted up on the side of rebellion. They've been waiting to get their corners
Now can they break out still ball gets kind of sent to MIBR
They've had to kind of fight for the ball on the side of rebellion double here from Astro tries to cut out their co-first
Maybe a chance here race ball going for gold
Oh, is that LJ?
Yeah.
LJ goes in, but Razeball looks at the slow play on this.
Like, using the dodge at the perfect time
so we can get that follow-up turn to get past one.
Defense panics hits it right on LJ's car.
I mean, it's a great play because it forces the defense of error.
Oh, did I get another one?
No, first killer's there.
Seems like first killers always there defensively
for Shopify Rebellion.
Now, Kofor going for the double,
the backboard it's tipped away to prevent the shot from LJ but first
killer will knock it back to Kofir who's boosted up.
Kofir improv there trying to make the most of that situation.
Made in Brazil getting some boost to their own and feel past the race bull
race bull staying behind it goes for Grump it's
definitely in a demo and Sam will get the quarter boost steal.
Astro all alone not gonna be able to do too much but he does keep it in
play. I like the idea that race bull had
He's on the ball again. Flipre said almost straight to Astro's card.
Saddle wanted to keep this in play, but it's a little rest here for MIBR.
They are starting to really put the pressure on Rebellion and expose him offensively.
Now you can see as Dramik had said, he mixed up a little bit right there.
I think both of them wanted to make a play on the ball and field pass.
Contested. Astro goes for Flipre, set pass into the middle.
But Rebel is going to be last back.
And that could have been disastrous for Maynard Brazil.
Still not out of it just yet.
Yeah, it's called for empty net look you thought that okay, maybe this is gonna be the one that doesn't here for the series
But now in my VR still would have been a fighting chance. They're looking for that
Astro each other. I think this demo to set it up. But look at LJ. Just quick to cut the ball out
You have to have a sense of urgency here on rebellion. You can't slow down and my VR is beating up
Astro
The mix now raise will moving in in the corner looking for a team in the middle ball out to Astro
Astro, high hit off the arc, can't get the double.
Think was hoping it was gonna go for him.
Is that gonna try to get this out to Astro?
Let LJ get that flick, that's gonna kill so much time on the clock.
Now you've got to work downfield, first killer gets a high ball and now you see Razebull
trying to set that one up to mid, still calibrates Astro shot, but LJ, Razebull can get the bump on him.
LJ had to dodge that bump and did so and now first killer doesn't get the shot on target.
Rebellion hanging on by a thread. Razebull late reset pass.
And that's broken up by first killer south of him and Razebull trying to tip it back towards that.
And that's Stromik gets the goal. So much pressure and then Razebull with the perfect
the door to put it straight to the bed.
Like you said, first kill and no boost.
And Astro didn't have any just crastic.
And Raze both had a touch, 200 IQ to get the ball back
into a dangerous spot.
All of a sudden, MIBR have found life.
Rebellion has not been able to withstand the pressure.
Honulted.
Astro trying to break it up.
Sad has to make a good play here.
Can't get the corner boost.
Loses the ball as well, still trying to stay behind it.
You can see it's awkward, but it finally touches the ground.
Enough of a defensive job done there by Sad to get overtime.
Now, rebellion.
Can it close the series out here?
Okay, looking to a good cut there from Sad.
The ball.
Raise ball trying to get this ball downfield.
And Ashramic, he be it close.
Ashramic has been so good at trying to keep possession,
Getting those light touches that are so hard to control,
but managing to do a great job.
There's Demo, a ball, hit up field, first killer, full tank.
Off the ceiling as well.
The land gets his jump, went for a ground double,
it looked like a race ball broke it up sad
with a backflip.
First killer looking for bumps maybe.
Astro again, on the dribble goes for a 50.
Race ball.
Getting it.
All was too hard, sad, very dangerous.
Wow, what composure there from sad.
One mistake there, it could go in as that series
to be over. MIBR holding on right now but look at the pressure for rebellion and we're
rebellion on top of all this. So dangerous! Good touch there for Madro! What a cutout!
Shot by rebellion, really amping up the pressure. Lots of boost for first killers.
Gonna go for a solo play. Reset. Musty, fakes it. Goes for a 50 and that
plate fizzles out. Defense from MIBR has been very compulsive even when
rebellion can look so threatening. Astro taking his time, first killer up
Let's try to get the ball away from them.
Zad in an awkward spot.
And Reis will just have to dodge a demo for Fulker.
They're doing everything they can to keep this ball close.
But Rebellion's trying to destroy it.
And Zad again, what a good cut.
Well, you can see him stretching on zero boost.
Man of Brazil, so low.
The corner boost's stolen as well,
but Nistrovic finds the ball and will
get a bit of breathing room.
Zad has to wait for the mid.
So these 50s, it made a rebellion here.
That being said, boosted up a little bit more here as in my VR.
But for client stuff, giving that ball to that lowline,
it's going to be a tough breakout.
It's another one on target, but the ball's
so much compulsive there.
I'm going to pass, too.
How does Razeball get that by LJ?
Still set back downfield.
LJ at the midfield, letting him bounce.
There's the touch.
Over to Kulfer, but Razeball also getting in the mix.
Tipped it back, but it's right to first.
shot by rebellion.
They're in position.
First killer going for a bluff.
Rebound out.
And Sam will break up the rebound attempt.
He jumped so early, has to just really control his car
to get there, to give them some room.
Now we might finally see MIBR on offense.
Can they make this the most out of this opportunity?
Raze will try to drop it down to half-match.
Now, still more pressure.
First killer awkward, but he gets it to the corner
where he can control it.
And he's got a boost as well.
First killer, can he end it?
Reset, hard shot.
Get hard to the corner now.
Made it Brazil trying to get by it.
Way to 50 from Sad.
Sad for another 50.
Stays in the play.
Gets an extra touch.
Wow.
They still keep this one in.
Astro turns, but he's a little late.
Has no respect.
LJ there.
Now he plays it to his own back wall.
Sad a little awkward.
This game is so tight because of all of these different
micro plays that you have to watch out for.
Sad again.
We can test Raeflo with a bit of space.
It's the mid booster spot for him.
By Elton, he's knocked up on his will.
First killer needs to slow this down and feel past.
LLJ will tip it up.
First killer, back on it, only 18 boost.
Will just send it towards net.
Trying to melt some boost out of Made of Brazil.
Made of Brazil, starting to show lots of life.
Saddest don't awkward here on the back wall.
But the ball finally gets to him, able to control it.
That could have been disastrous.
Just hit that one hard, forcing Rebellion to use some boost.
Rebellion not able to get control of the ball here.
Raise ball, big play there to get two to go.
And Rebellion now kind of struggling in the back end here.
He might be out with the possession.
LJ, kind of battle through.
Tested again.
My sad first killer.
50, right to Kofur, Kofur full tank.
First killer on the side wall will let Kofur work in the corner.
Now this is a dangerous block to the mid.
LJ with a challenge, Razeball.
We'll take the corner boost
and that leaves Sadlo.
First kill of following.
Oh, we get such a different stat to cut it off.
Castro stand on top of this one.
If you would LJ, go for a quick, but not enough
to stop Razeball from playing into the side wall.
Still in play. Rebellion
or boosted up, they can hold this
extensively while they look for bumps.
But so far the defense from MIDRLK.
First kill, we got a demo on Sadlo. LJ's bumping Razeball
It goes for trying to get a good 50 playing mid.
Don't get to mid on the play though.
And that's going to kill the offense for a moment.
Well, it's a double commit, but you can still see the boost
advantage for Shopify Rebellion.
Running out fumes, has made it Brazil.
All line race ball had no boost,
but got there, jumped in time to knock that out.
But LJ has the boost, goes for a 50, kept out again.
But how long can made it Brazil?
Hold on.
Oh, there it is!
Nice ball!
Well, let's stop!
They're trying to go for the pass,
but it's a five minute mark.
But it worked!
MIB all holding on by a thread!
No boost until just now!
Everybody's looking to give him a little bit of breathing room!
And he gives a tip on A as well.
First killer.
Airborne reset.
Leaves it.
Back down to Kofor.
Kofor will take it off the bounce.
Into the sky.
Ceiling pitch.
Into the main Brazil quarter.
Sad.
Trying to send this straight up the middle.
Ways to 50.
Race ball versus first killer.
First killer, no boost.
He gets it right back to the ball, get clear, he gets Demo.
Rascal picks up Mint here, so can get into the play.
He's gonna play right behind Kofir as a 50 goes to Razeball.
Looking towards the net, he wants to get rebellion
and use their boots.
They have battled a patrician here for both teams.
It might be our sort of great job holding on low boost,
but can they finish the game?
Sad double hide, wanted to get it, Mint to Razeball.
Couldn't get the right touch.
It's the pass back down, Astro's in the middle.
Astro up against First Killer,
But first killer sends it down field.
Razeball will be back in time to dribble it to his out corner.
Knocks it up the gun.
Double commit.
But Gopher still stayed behind the ball.
Zathal will take it off the bounce.
Up and over one.
Razeball goes for the touch.
The Razeball still keeps it in.
Ackerman keeps it in.
How the fuck?
Ackerman comes off the corner.
The game's been tripled.
Dalyan puts it on it.
And we're going five.
How does MIPR win this game?
And you can even see him the ball is it would look like it was frozen on that save attempt
Culver was millimeters away from getting that ball saved
MIBR not being denied here. They are pushing rebellion to the break
And I think this is our first game five here of the boston
They at one o'clock eastern time it should be this crazy
Welcome to the Major, James.
My goodness.
My goodness indeed. No timeout called on either side.
And I love it. I love it. It's straight, straight back.
It's, let's go!
It's felt like a street fight.
These guys, you know, they show up, square up,
and they are just landing blows against each other.
You can see them both bleeding.
Yep. Good shots landed.
But they're both still standing.
And it's going to take one more game to finally knock the other down. It's not the prettiest series that that's for sure
But it's got great
Wow, he's giving everyone punch counterpunch and not giving up even in the final moments
And what a crucial game this could end up being especially the MIBR takes this this shakes up the entire group
So I did they they both know you you can see the pressure
Sure, it's the first game of the group for these teams, but they know that their journey
is going to be determined by this series.
They're leaving it all out on the field, the champions field, we're kicking it off.
Let's get into this one, Dads.
Here we go.
So far, possession in MIBR's favor.
Astro's first killer, can he get the flick?
Oh, no!
Oh!
What was that?
The Astro's doing so much work here.
He's threatening the flick, threatening the flick, threatening the flick.
Just goes for the low 50, LJ.
There's nothing he can do except try to get out of the way.
He can't.
He goes forward and he risked all goalie.
Passed the guy on the way, and I mean, the ball's giving you the lords here to
start us off.
These past few games desert, it's felt like Shot By Rebellion has been the one who's had
the advantage, but made in Brazil keeps holding on.
Now we see made in Brazil get out to this lead.
Perhaps that surge of confidence after that insanely long OT.
This ends up being a big problem for Rebellion.
Hopper though. Oh no!
Stop scoring and we see time and time again.
So much brilliant offensively.
But am I the only wall?
Rebellion can't break through.
Rebellion, so much time left in this game.
LJ, trying to take this airport.
Flip reset shut down by Raze Bull.
And Raze Bull gets a second touch that throws off FK.
And now another challenge that sends this downfield.
It's a satchel, flip reset, not the best touch there.
Astro picks it up, he's gonna take his time.
Notice his teammates are low boost here.
Trying to do it all himself.
First kill is 50, go straight to raise bull.
And now the bull versus Kofir here on the side wall.
Can he get that corner?
That's what he's looking for.
And Astro has some time here.
First killer's trying to close the gap,
but Astro will set it up field.
And it's the touch pass, LJ.
Kofir needs to be careful.
Kofir nice pinch down the side wall
that relieves a lot of pressure.
And I'll pinch right back to LJ.
LJ, wonderful catch.
Into an air dribble, the 50, and bounces off the bar!
Oh!
And it will be a floor ball pulver!
What a play though!
You got to look at first skill here.
First off, LJ, great individual performance.
First killer going for the ball, not the ball,
because he knows he has pulver to finish the job.
And that catch in the air by LJ was pristine.
It's for LJ to be able to put on that kind of pressure offensively in a situation where it was not looking likely
But that perfect catch the air dribble the 50 and broke down the defense and made made a Brazil going panic mode
And then like you said that bump for first killer finished the job
You need someone to make a play and fortunately you got LJ and then first killer selfless there in that moment
It's okay, but then now tied up game
Who is going to take this one, who's going to really push the others to the brink and
come out on top of here.
First round in Group D by the way.
I didn't expect this.
Edge of your scene action as we hit the halfway point of the final game of the series tied
at one goal apiece.
LJ again will try to work in the air.
He's worked magic before.
Flippery said shut down.
Razeball streaking to it.
See Razeball trying to prevent Kofor from getting that touch.
Sad to it.
Crystal's learning.
He plays it off that back wall.
Razeball waiting here.
Good cut, but not good enough.
Sad to come through this.
Oh, he got botched.
And Aljah will take the pocket from Lillian
most away to the lead.
Another situation where Aljah gets a massive 50,
and then you could see Aljah harassing
Sadden who was in that.
But it looks like Sad was in position
get that stuff maybe jumped early and waited too long to use the flip it just
didn't flip could be a critical mistake here unless it might be hard to clean
things up I got two minutes to do it
pastro to number one raise bull to a catch the little tip that's a good
ball but a demo on the third man no shot comes lovely demo there might go for
who is known for his demo ability.
First killer going to pick this one up.
Sad.
We'll take this time.
We're going to play a 50 here.
LJ.
On top of the ball, leaves it for Kofur.
Kofur, one of the doubles, raised goals.
Able to handle that situation cleanly,
but this is not the spot you want to be in if you're MIBR.
You need to break out.
Rebellion can run the clock down,
with a lot of offensive pressure.
If you see any MIBR, make stop for the low boost,
but they don't want to do that for the rest of the game.
They need to take a risk here at some point because time's not on their side.
First killer trying to get that insurance goal for rebellion.
Zath, pop up, right in the hands of Kofor. Kofor looking for FK.
Tipped to the corner by Razible and the corner picked up by Astro.
So now we see if Vanna Brazil can start this counter attack.
Raid bull streak it back.
First killer.
Round to attack here. You can see Vanna Brazil.
Blink, LJ's awkward.
Now you see that light touch.
Sad, not even able to get there.
Has to respect Kofor's touch.
And Kofor just kept MIBR back, making this so much harder.
LJ, did he pick the-
Oh!
First killer with the ball!
What a play for Rebellion!
First killer getting the goal,
but LJ has been the one that has put this ball
in dangerous spots over and over and over again
for Shopify Rebellion.
LJ elevating his performance,
And that has helped push them over the top of the series, but a kickoff strike is denied.
And that's going to make things even more challenging for me in Brazil.
Can they pull out something here with 30 seconds to go and get two?
Ashroll wants to try.
Razer will play it close, because that's on target.
Double commit, but first killer clears away the danger.
Big clearance again for first killer, and now Sad will try to keep this in play,
but LJ killing the clock and Rebellion activating a three-headed Hydra.
Here in game five, MIBR gave them their best shot.
But the rebellion lives on in Surges.
They're going to open up group B for the game five win.
And what an effort made in Brazil put on,
as we almost get one for the road, Shopify Rebellion.
Takedown made in Brazil, but it was a close one.
An alert put on the rest of the group, though,
because MIBR, this series could have went any way,
such a shocking start to the series,
and they were able to keep it up over the course of play.
But I mean, what a fight.
And we started to open that up.
No time out, plenty over times,
just two teams duking it out.
And it was fun to watch.
And the overtime's as well, so close.
I think everyone had their moments,
you know, race both defensively,
you know, race both defensively,
making some quality plays.
I thought Astralamic offensively was really something else for Made of Brazil.
There was just a few mistakes.
You even look back.
I'd love to take another look at that last play where Stad is trying to dodge the bump
and looks like he was in that position to be able to get a touch, keep it in the corner.
You know, there were a few mistakes here and there for Made of Brazil defensively,
but the same could be said for Rebellion.
Right, and then, of course, this is Sam.
Sam too in this event.
Hey, you gotta wonder what fear you're gonna bring out here onto the table as well.
But that being said, I mean, rebellion showed up,
got the job done.
It's going to be a very interesting group
stage of things to do.
Yeah, but going back to what the dust was talking about,
yes, specifically, saying that first killer,
he's so good at this stage in the tournament.
He's so hard to beat.
And I think this series is another example showing you
that first killer can just make plays.
He makes plays.
So does everyone on rebellion.
What a strong showing out of them to close things out
in five.
We're going to send it to Lee to stand by the player for the team.
We got our first killer with me from Shopify Rebellion.
Your first congratulations on the win, because it's good to get a dub out there.
But you walked up and I could see it on your face.
It wasn't maybe the exact result that you were looking for in terms of the score line.
And I wasn't at all.
We were we were playing one scrims. We know we wanted to do and then maybe it's just because it's the first match
We're doing what we wanted to do and we didn't we just didn't perform
So yeah, we got work on it. Yeah, I was mentioning before the series that we're seeing you know the first rounds too
We had a bit of shakiness even from
Like an RG giving up a game there where you expect a 3-0 it feels like overall every team's kind of feeling this
Do you have any explanation for that? Do you think this is just something always happens?
You guys usually show up in groups. What's going on with everybody?
I think he's literally just gonna stick the first like international and yeah, everyone's just kind of nervous in their first match
I think that's where it is. Yeah, I guess because we had the kickoff
But it was still like it feels like it was so long ago as well because it was in the last year
Or did you feel that gap? Did you feel like coming up to this event?
But it hadn't been a while before you'd been able to kind of stretch your legs in that environment
Yeah, I think it had been a little bit. So yeah, it was just everyone's getting used to I think pretty much
Especially us I think we you know we started slow, but hopefully we pick it up for the next one
Yeah, the question is I guess for for you guys
How do you how do you step that back because it is I know it's someone I play and I start getting down it
It's hard to bring yourself back into that mood. Is there a ringleader?
I mean obviously got coach VP behind you who kind of like tries to take charge
You guys back in those spirits because you got more games to play in it's kind of like I think
It's pretty much just like me and by the panda we both just try to get everyone going
But honestly, it's literally just all mental. So like we did that like tell ourselves that like
We just got to we're playing rock. We're playing the same game we play every day and I know it's hard easier than they're done, but it's pretty much what it is.
You have to. Again, it's not easy. Otherwise, everyone else would be up here doing what they're doing. But the end of the day, you got the win. So congratulations on that. Good luck in the rest of your matches, man.
Thank you.
We got a lot more rock to leave to get through here on day number one of the Boston Major. So I hope you don't break my heart and leave us and join us after the break for more rock.
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something like I have for Texan just need a lifeguard.
What about that emoji with a shocked face?
Or maybe flooded with emotion.
That's too much.
Try, um, Tuesdays are cray.
You know, technically, you don't have to post
everything that happens online.
I totally believe you.
Life is meaningless without affirmation.
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instead it's a passing play for the Falcons.
It's blocked out by Wavey.
Wavey trying to sherry pick.
Recognizes an open net,
but Drolley will get back in time.
It does give a chance now
for talking to the challenger in the corner
and a pass out to Wavey
that's quickly blocked out.
Again, a lot of development of these plays in the corner
just nothing coming to fruition.
I mean, Drolley kind of making a choice there
on that challenger in his corner earlier as well.
He soon leaned back for that soft touch
trying to regain control
and kind of let the pressure off
Virtus.Pro let them get a lot of boost.
a lot of boost really get their feet set here at the midfield line where this
girl may be on the attack here for a little bit. First uncontested aerial I
feel like the entire game a flip reset doesn't really go anywhere but it's a
chance now for VP to make you set up shot unless they get bumped off the ball
and clears gets a free carry out to midfield. This flip reset again contested
as well and now it's Wavy's turn to try and do something midair where he's
immediately fit feed and at least it spills out into the Falcons half
probably off the back before trying to get something started just to pass out
the two-piece you can't really get a shot instead it goes back to that infamous
corner yet again and wavy does that I don't think it's gonna benefit VP
whatsoever as they're gonna have to take it back in their half to restart the
offense now that is what I get a little bit worried about watching VP here
right yeah it's good that they're on the attack they do indeed have the camp
set up at the midfield line but if all we're able to do is just keep poking
it into the corner I'm not too worried if I'm Falcons here and be like
great I'm glad you guys can attack but you're not doing anything
talked about before there's gonna be a bit of a boxing match you need that
knockout blow. You get a jack here or there. It's not going to do all too much. Where's
that right hook? Where's that uppercut? That gives you an open neck. All right. A little
bit confused. Clears. We'll find a second goal for Falcons and I'm not really sure how.
Yeah, Toc. Definitely expecting two-piece to get a piece of that 50 up in the corner.
He was ready to head up the wall and maybe play some type of clear from somebody on
the backboard or maybe go for something up the ceiling and slow down that Falcons
counter-attack. Either way slips through and nobody on VP ready. A late deficit.
Now you have to make something happen.
Wavy trying to get creative,
but he doesn't have the boost to really make it work.
And Hawkins are just going to start the clock now.
He's been so good to those 50s all throughout the season
in North America.
It's a little bit different when you're trying to do that
against a team that has been known for their 50s
for what feels like forever.
45 seconds left.
There's not a whole lot of time left in this game.
And if Falcons get another one,
that'll surely be the nail in the coffin.
Instead, though, Hawke trying to get it out
from midfield doesn't have very good sense.
Another open net.
Bernice Pro maybe not prioritizing defense
as much as they should right now.
and talk. Unfortunately, that ball kicked away from him a little bit harder.
I think you want to take that up the wall and continue trying to take the 50,
but just the way the physics worked out, popped off the wall a little bit,
came off the top of his car, poked that into the midfield, and Virtus.
Pro out there, obviously, like we were talking about battling for the
first boost, not back in time.
As talk actually got kicked by the ball, more than he did it,
had to turn himself around again. That just wasted time off the clock.
Talk a lot about how this is going to be a very cohesive unit on either side.
VP definitely know them for their ability to play around each other and same for the Falcons.
Falcons proven that during game number one every single player on the team has at least a goal so far
and things may only get worse. That's another one for Drolley. It is 4-1 to Falcons.
Woof! Tough build to swallow. I mean it felt like a tight fight all the way throughout. That's a nice bump,
but look at that fake. That's what's so annoying about Falcons. You see two people going out,
you have to make a choice as a defender. You guess wrong and somehow some way Falcons
always seems to know which way you're gonna lean and they put in number four and
Definitely put game one out of reach maybe five years away. He came up empty. Oh, no
Not really much else to say besides that one what was a very close contest most in this game has snowballed into a five to one
Definitely victory for Falcons here and I'll correct my status and everybody on the team has at least a goal
And I'll also all have at least an assist a full team effort from Falcons VP
We cannot say the same I could I could see them taking a time out after this game
This got out of hand real quick and I have to imagine they need to try and find some confidence going in the game too
That's actually what I found myself wondering about as well because I mean this game was actually tight for a pretty significant portion of time
And if you're very strong you actually held pressure for a decent chunk of it
You just needed to find a way to break through
Now it's more important here is do you take the time out immediately like you were talking about which I don't think it's a bad move
because we don't need to sit here and think about okay, how are we going to break them down?
We just have to give a bad taste out of her mouth and completely just choking away the rest of K1.
Hey, it was like what three minutes of that one to one they both scored the goal off kickoff initially
and after that it was pretty much an inlock until about that final minute or two.
I don't know if it was maybe VP changing things up maybe going you know,
all right full send let's see if we can get something to get their own offense and you
know if things go awry on defense so be it but why would you do that when it does kind
kind of feel like they were playing them evenly.
I do think that disruption play we talked about before
is becoming a problem.
I don't think Ferdis, bro,
have that disruption played down.
I don't think Wavey was getting
nearly involved enough in offense.
I don't think Tocque was giving the room to fly.
And again, like we talked about,
Tocque, one of the most impressive, mechanical,
offensive, just all around talents in North America.
I don't think he really displayed that in that game.
It's hard to flex the mechanical guns
when you really don't get a lot of pressure.
And if you want Tocque to show off the mix,
you gotta stick them as the third man.
You have to let them pick up the loose ball
and then set himself up with the little bit of extra room
that being third man can provide.
It's probably the only way that's
going to happen, because it's not
like you're going to be able to pick up a challenge from your
teammate at the midfield line and not expect somebody
from Falcons to be right on top of you, right in your face.
So if you're looking for talk to be that mech away,
that's kind of the only way you're going to get there.
Like we see teams do with Zen.
They just stick them in back and say, look, pick up the loose ball
and do your worst, big dog.
But either way, tough game one, I think,
to just slide through the cracks
and just get absolutely blown off the pitch
at the end of it.
And I think he talked about wavy, you know,
taking really good quality fifties on the ground.
Is that something that you really want to try and approach?
I actually don't hate the idea
because if you know Falcons are all juicy and air with it,
hey man, let's play the little ground game.
Let's slow it down.
Time to clip some wings.
The Falcons, they flew in game one.
Question is, can they do it again?
In game two, an early goal for Vardis Pro
would have gone a very long way
to reinstilling that confidence that we talked about.
Instead, it's going to go back into their end
If there is a second shooter there out of midfield,
that probably would have been an early goal for Falcons.
Instead, we do get a bit of a battle here, Toss.
No, please, no.
Don't just give another open net.
It would have been like the third.
Drawling with the immediate follow up shot
just to keep Burtis Pro tied into their own half cross.
Delay, steal boost, maybe find a bump.
Killers just floating around.
Falcons.
Oh, nasty pitch.
That's not even fair.
You're not saving that if you talk.
That's just not fair.
Oh, you got a feel for talk on this one, but I almost feel worse for 2Ps.
That flip reset did him no justice, gets it a bit too far away from his car,
and that is an easy goal for a loss.
He will take that gladly, and Falcons once again scoring early.
Tough break, another slight mis-execution from Virtus.Pro.
Killers breaks through everyone.
2Ps, heck of a job.
How do you even still have a flip?
Looks like he jumped forever ago.
Not really sure, but he's gonna need some more saves like that
if they want to get back into this game.
Outside of that initial challenge from Virtus.Pro,
that's not been a lot of offense in this second game.
A minute gone, there's got plenty of time to correct that,
but to really see it,
their midfield rotations are not the same
as they normally are.
They would have a person following it up almost immediately
in other games,
would have liked to have somebody there
to follow up on this one,
or to just shoot it on target.
Another opportunity,
just let that the door for Virtus.Pro.
Yeah, that was the one,
but they get another look at it
and Toc can't really square it up.
He doesn't have a boost.
Getting bumped, it was a tough contested shot,
and the loss forces the ball into the corner,
and steals the boost.
Oof, and now here come the Falcons.
Killers get some bite taken out of them,
drawing, squeezing as well.
It's been tough.
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Continuation of Falcons versus Curtis pro Falcons still leading in that game. Oh almost on the scoreboard
I got I got the game pulled up in front of me
So I'm like keep an eye on full stream to go across side when watching these major events
I kind of have two different games going on there been a crazy one so far though
We want to get it gives you I was wrong you owe them on a foul
It's been Brazil. That was an awesome performance. I love seeing it the defensive performance on low boost
multiple times in that game for so many heroic saves that they had and they kept
it close the whole way finally in that final game it fell apart right at the
end but they showed that they belong here and that they belong in the
conversation for a topping spot like the mates everyone's saying it's gonna win
this group but there's no two tough games left with rebellion and of course
men was up stacks do you feel you learned more about made in Brazil here
or about shop by rebellion I had still a lot of questions about shop
I think we learned a little bit about Made in Brazil there.
I mean, they are, I didn't think that this was going to be one side at all.
I thought it was going to be a close series and they absolutely balled out.
I think LJ really answered some questions though, because I think he was struggling
late in that series and then really turned it around again in game five.
And I think that's been kind of a situation where maybe in the past that might kind
to start to board it over and and go really sideways for this rebellion team but he got
himself right and was a big part of closing this out in game five.
I mean it's a good win for a billion but I still have questions from them.
It's the offense.
It begs the question what are you going to do when you play at Falcons, when you
play in RG, when you play one of these great great teams and they're going to be on
form because again if you said they're going to score 12 goals and I asked you
where they go find the 12 goals that's because it's just like game by game they might
They'll get several nodes, a couple of counters, a couple of bumps.
There's a late goal right here to put it away, but I mean,
the office of output that you expect from a team composed of LJ,
opposite MVP, 2023 Worlds, and first killer is just simply not there.
And Group D did go to game five, which we made in Brazil, in the rebellion.
But the gentlemates got quick work over TSM there.
They'll be on top of the group with a quick 3-0, and that's Group D.
Well, you've done it for the day?
No, no, we come back to Group D at the end of the day,
We will see shop on mental mates as well as take on TSM. So where's versus winners losers versus losers there close out
The day that'll be having later though. Let's move on to group B
So one of our denser groups lots of incredible teams here only two get to escape this group of death here, but yeah
Only two gets you I mean if I'll get you expected
So really is only one out there as the other out of the other three
They're about to play for second falcon should just go 3-0 in this and then saying that it's really kind of in a way it makes it
Like I'm just glancing over the other three teams the fury of vertus prone GKE sports are all great in our own right
But Falcons simply on another level. Yeah, this is one of the best groups of whoever comes in fourth could have you know
Get the top two in any of the other groups
It's like like group B and C are the two tough groups group be a little bit easier than C
But still it's still incredibly tough through about CBC Falcons ready up 1-0 versus Verdes coming up
But this is tough every single one of these matches. It's also not even close in game 2 Falcons
They were a 5 to 1 in game 1 there now up 5 to 0 with a minute and 30 left to play in game 2
Falcons and listen you got that that twin combo with TRF a dryly
It doesn't matter at this point
They are the greatest team of running up the score to games ever.
We're just going to have a lot of weight on their shoulders.
The action to happen over on the alternate stream here on the mainstream.
We got a few more fun matches to go through before we close out the day.
Let's get into our next one here.
Furia coming in from South America, taking on GKE Sports.
The fun story with GKE.
Again, Europe wins the gauntlet bracket at the kickoff weekend opening land of the season,
which earns Europe a fifth spot at all in-person competitions.
the majors and the world championship.
GK the benefactor of that spot.
Yes, we see joy over there.
He's been the benefit before as an EU5C
made it to the world championship
because mean it's who cannot go two years ago
and and what do they do?
They can stop six right?
Like it doesn't matter when Europe is here.
All these teams are a threat to do well
and these guys so much experience
I talked about all three are MVP land winners.
But that was in 2022.
So four years ago for all these guys
maybe a little bit of their prime
But they still have tons of experience
and they can definitely challenge the top 12.
Apparently, Jack, you're talking about the BMVPs.
You won that land in Rotterdam.
That was a long time ago.
That was a long time ago.
That was a long time ago.
That was a long time ago.
We had three great teams.
He was representing NA.
I was kind of confusing.
There was Abjak Noli and Young Man Kwanek.
And they absolutely handled business.
And they were the best team in North America
that whole entire year, which is saying something.
G2 still existed.
This team in particular, this GK Roster,
It begs a lot of questions because two points the first open then again all by the second
Then you get three points at the third open and have to play a tiebreaker, which honestly and when going to that matchup
It's felt like man City had more momentum, but then GK handled business
I don't know whether the man City nerves or not so they're a fifth seed in you right now, but I
Can't see her point of basketball
On the other side though the champions out of South America a name that has become synonymous with the region
that has earned so many fans from that region here in Rock like Furia taking to the stage.
Yeah, this is a team that everybody keeps looking for their downfall, right? It's like,
okay, so there are more exciting teams in South America. They're going to unseat Furia.
No, no, it's still Furia's region until somebody says otherwise and people have tried,
but they still have not. And it's in large part because of Batman right there as a bad, bad man.
Maybe the most intimidating person to sit across from when you're on the stage.
He's been doing it the entire open era.
Honestly, even dating back to all CSX,
we were playing online,
the Amazon is really at the full shoulder world
that I am this great added loss to the team
and the stats you're talking about,
people have been waiting for Ferri's downfall
to not as good, yada, yada, yada.
We just had Joe B on the previous desk.
He talked about it as well.
Four really good, two really great teams and Sam.
He got Ambulance, Secret, Made in Brazil and Ferri,
and yet Ferri still remains on top.
That show is our town today.
And we just saw Made in Brazil.
They look fantastic with Ferri.
went to all against them in the split. So if you're in it, they are forced. The
world champion last year though, the team was dismantling at times. They lost
the wild card 3-0. They finished ninth place. It looked like that team was
absolutely done. They made the roster and bring in Swift. And he's been their
best player, I think throughout this entire split. Let me correct here on
something. There are three really good teams in Sam's. There's one great
team in South America. Okay. And you're looking at him right now.
Listen, listen, you can say they're great, but the other teams they
I like it. I like that stuff. I like it. Now here's the thing. We talk about GK and you talk about the tiebreaker. There we go. Joy with the camera is coming. Is it Dragon Ball? There we go.
This is the force we recommend. You can't give him a free spot. He will take advantage of the tiebreak.
Yeah, he's just gonna keep doing it because he just loves the camera.
There's nothing better, but Man City was the better Iraqi league team in that tiebreak.
Like going into that match, like on paper or on the field, Man City was better.
But the reason why GK is here, experience.
Yeah, it's an experience team in Atlanta.
And GK has more experience than most of the teams here.
They can use that in this group stage.
They boot camped, I talked to them like in an interview, they were very happy with
their boot camp and they think they figured out their issues to be fair every team is gonna say that
but I believe it was Jacks that Jack is a very convincing man so usually he's a pretty
shoot straighter he'll tell you they're a straight shooter if he thinks that he's they don't have
every doubt he'll let you know though but I don't know like basically you feel like experience
is a difference in this particular matchup like I mean I'm looking at Yan lost in Swift like
three of the most experienced players from the South American region and while
Yeah, these three players have all made the full run.
Yeah, they've made it all the way.
This is day one.
I mean, it's every team's got experience here.
Yeah, I mean, it is day one.
Every team does have experience.
I think what Gives is really talking about,
he's talking about winning experience.
Ferry hasn't tested that yet.
Also, they've had a slip, but slip was on the better team
last year.
He was on Team Secret, and they made the change.
And that was really the catalyst, I think,
for even why Swift joined this Ferry roster,
because they want to have the three best players
from Sam.
They believe they do have the three best players in Sam.
And that's why you make those changes.
Falcons made the change with Drowler.
You see if they're doing a various pro, they bought this week.
No, they actually just got scored on.
But they're down 1-0 and gave number three.
But in the same at Ophiria, this is why you make the change
as well.
You add Swim because you realize that you've kind of gotten
stagnant with Drowin and you've reached the peak.
You're not going to get any better than that.
Came against Whip so we can keep competing against the best
and the best.
And now we see them on international stage for the
first time.
They seem to go for Nagan.
Going up against the GK squad, he looked okay.
This is a good lead-miss test for the team.
And again, very talented group.
All these teams can possibly win.
So like Virtus.Pro obviously is looking great too.
So this is, it feels like a must win already.
I mean, an experienced team for each of these players
is so strong.
We're talking about how bad of a man Yan is down there
on the end.
People might have forgotten because it was one match we
got to watch on lane at Birmingham.
But this is the South American 1v1 regional champion
in the inaugural season of 1v1 in RLCS.
So top four 1v1 players in the world, as far as RLCS is concerned,
it was formidable on that stage.
It took Moxie to take him down and now here he's back again in the 3v3 format.
Those 1v1 skills still apply.
Oh, and do need a touch on theory.
They make a coaching change.
No potatoes now.
They got Bruno behind behind him.
So period, making coaching spots, they're bringing new players in.
It's kind of like it's the same general core.
Yeah.
But they just add us with that new coach.
They want to have a new type of ideology behind how they play.
It came out made it one two of the three opens in Sam
But they absolutely needed though because last year like furia fell apart
They were not a top-of-the-team in the world. It felt like not even close at times
So they absolutely needed to make changes and they made two changes, which is a big deal
So because that doesn't happen that often in Sam
They did a swap with team secret and you see how well that worked for furia did not work well for team secrets
So furia they got the benefit of that move they got the two regional wins
But again, it comes down to the international bluff.
Well, I give them a lot of credit, too,
because there were rumors swirling at Worlds over who
was going to get kicked.
It's like, OK, what kind of change
are they going to make?
And I think a lot of the chatter was, OK,
maybe it's lost.
It's going.
He's still there.
They took the time to really think about what they're
going to do, what gives them the best chance going forward.
And they didn't just rush into it,
like, say, a typical North American team might,
even with the very short off season.
And that's the thing with Sam, too.
It's about vibes like normally, like Furia had, they always had the aura, they always
had the vibes.
The aura.
Well we saw like at the World Championship, like you could tell by the counterfeits like
this team is disbanded, they were completely out of it.
So they absolutely had to make a change and they did.
But GK, like on the flip side, three players from three different teams in Europe, there
was roster mania happen, yet they find a way to form, they scrape it by, they
They did not look good all split, but they found a way here.
And that is the main goal of every single team here.
It doesn't matter what C you are.
We've seen teams like EU5, like the Mates win before.
So it can happen.
Is there an X factor here?
A person or an aspect of the game,
specifically with Furia versus GK,
what's going to be the difference
maker to the Terminator wins?
I feel like lost.
I love his chaos ball when he goes up field
and he's just like, I am just going to ball chase
and I am going to try and disrupt
as much as I possibly can.
On the other side, apparently Jack does the same exact thing.
That's the only way he's played for the past like two years
on all those teams is he's your lead man.
He causes chaos.
He causes some bumps to open up the field for his teammates.
So if either of them can possibly get that third man
a little bit awkward, then they will win.
But this series should be incredibly close.
Well, folks, let us know who you think is gonna win
in the progressive fan vote.
Virtus.Pro has got two goals up on Falcons there
for game number three.
So looking like there's only 49 seconds left,
look like there's a good chance they'll take game three there.
So we'll see if they're gonna have to reverse sweep out
or if they want to get out of it.
That's all happening on the alternate stream,
push.tv slash RLE sports.
Omega picks up here on the desk for this one,
Furia versus GK sex.
What do you got?
Well, I think that if this happened about a month ago,
I probably would have taken Furia.
But I think when you give a team like GK
with these three, you give them all this time
to prepare for a land like this.
I think that they are a much different piece.
So I'm going to go with GK here.
Not the most confident in it, but I do think that they scraped by here as they've done literally all season.
I'm not confident at all, but I am going GK. I think it's game 5 over time. I feel like these teams are so close.
But I think it's either game 5 or a Furia 3-0 then. It's one of the two. I feel like I'm worried about GK.
Really?
They can say that they're looking good, but if they crumble on game 1, I am very concerned with them.
Okay, Fates?
Stacks, open them 3-0, you only have about two weeks ago.
They haven't been that well.
I have said that.
And saying that GK, you get scraped by, you gotta hear your hand on your business.
Give me a period. I like to say Mr. Worldwide likes very I am finally as two teammates just mechanical if not more mechanical than him
It's gonna be something special. I something's telling me this is a four-game series, but a close four games
We're gonna have some over times. I do think though the GK will scrape out on the experience here
I do think they're gonna be the stronger team there on the day
Fury on one side GK on the other coin in the air and it comes up fury here
So pretty balanced desk we got right now. I don't like the corner right now coins been off
I'm going to go in the corner zone 2, but Bates has been hot, Bates is 2 for 2, and Bates is 3 for 3.
30% of Chaffer-Ferri and that's a little too low.
Teams are ready to go. Falcons vs. Pro going into game number 4. Let's hit into game number 1.
Over here on the mainstream. GK vs. Furia. An important match to win in a deadly group.
Only one spot thought to be on the line here in Group B. Let's find out how they're going to go.
Versus Furia
We've had some excitement in day one here at the Boston Major now we get on to the next yes, sir
Furia versus GK came one brought to you by progressive and welcome turtle
We are so back and what a what a juicy tree here that we get to just eat on Jordan because this matchup
I
Love this it's gonna be a battle of experience. They were talking about it on the desk, you know the EU
GK roster. They've got so much experience. The depth is there, but then also Furia, Sam,
I mean, how can you deny them? And we're already pausing the pause. Okay, there's
too much. We can't even handle it. Jack throws his hands up. He's not even sure
what's going on there, or maybe it was his controller or something. I'm not
telling you anything that's going on here. I don't actually know. Hand towel.
I don't think I've seen a hand towel. Yeah. Is that like even common? I've
been out of the scene for a little bit. I mean, you've got towels around, you
know hands get sweaty although usually it's hand-warnered obviously on camera
yeah but I mean you were still setting it up right we talked about GK coming in
as the European fifth seed which was earned through the victory in Copenhagen
by Europe and so making it through a tiebreaker as right it was a struggle for
them to get here the desk talked about the experience on this roster on the
other side your furia who have posted disappointing results the last few lands
is that they've been really taken a step or two back.
Yan, who has been kind of the face of the region
and the best player of the region for a very long time,
you haven't really been able to say that about him
the last few lands.
That being said, though, this past open,
or these past three opens for Fiora,
the competition was a lot more difficult
and they still found a way to dominate.
So, and Swift was new in this roster
in the last previous land that they were at.
So now Swift with a little more experience
with a new team on land could be a different FURIA team here.
But GK, obviously the experience that they bring,
it will be a difficult one,
but I think we're gonna learn a lot
about both teams just in this best of time.
And that to me doesn't really indicate
a big sign of any decline for FURIA.
I mean, they've been dominant in their region.
Like you said, the competition has only been rising there.
That floor just keeps going up and they still-
And we just saw MIBR against the million, right?
Exactly.
And they didn't take more than a game against FURIA.
FURIA remained on top in that region.
But then you talk about EU.
I mean EU has just been so historically dominant and even the fifth seed of GK
You saw the desk there the fifth seed they got into a tiebreaker and the desk is still
One-sided for GK taking this match up against furious. Yes. I'm not baited the lone pick on fury
I wish I would have never had that on my bingo card. I'm a luckily for those of you at home. Guess what?
Number one
apparently jacking swift on the kickoff yes sir we get going talk about furious
push in South America this split got Yan who was fourth best in goals per game
in the region now tries to set up a passing play off a ball doesn't play
connects got swift on the ground or on the water lost on the ground I can't put
it on target with the past run swift mechanics already unfolds play here for
Or Phyria, this is just an offensive onslaught off the kickoff.
We're restarting this one from that five minutes after the break.
But it's like Phyria, that hand towel,
getting used to things here on the stage.
And I mean, these guys look hungrier than ever.
But of course, GK can't count the amount.
Based off the first minute, you can tell it's
going to be an orange roster all over the blue half.
Swift starting us out.
Swift tipping a very tight angle here
as it gets to touch off the ceiling.
Reads it well and just find the angle Jack was close to it
He had to read but Swift got just enough juice and height as it crossed the net to get it by and great shot
I still those reeds are so difficult for these players
I think we saw one earlier from first killer off that arc at the top of the dome
To understand where that ball is gonna bounce out
You're doing it in such a high-pressure situation fury. I have come to play in D
Let's get them up from abjack opening up space a go unable to get a touch in the midfield boost does get grabbed by
Fiora as the
Situations of their office is just moving forward right now pretty seamlessly for Fiora
I'm in a tent of gameplay and a tent of Fiora offense
Maybe GK can finally break out here
Everyone moving forward for GK. It's a goal. Why?
GK on the ball
I mean can you dial it up any better than this they go over the left side of the wall then the follow-up and
And that's directly to Joyo. Look at the chemistry. He's waving,
lurking, patient for that follow-up. He knows it's going to get dished out to him
and he's able to finish it off.
Furia kind of lacks on defense there.
Senko did not hide what he was going for.
Yeah.
You saw Yan kind of creep up behind the first defenseman
and everyone kind of caught by the hype on the pass.
So Furia, after having all possession in the first minute of this game,
they immediately concede.
And I think that's the mental fortitude of GKI.
Out of all the Rossers here, I mean, usually any Rosser that has Aftak on it, I'm not gonna doubt their mental game.
That man is just such a good in-game leader, but all three players have that experience.
I think that's why so many people are confident in GK still taking this matchup.
But here, of course, have shown going to be a struggle that's going to happen.
Swift takes the midfield boost back up into the air, has some room to work with.
Seiko on the backboard, clears through the side,
and get the follow-up to is another one from Seiko, constantly with those extra touches.
All loss, poor touch.
It would have been a clean angle out.
Instead, Feria had to work a little harder and somehow this turned into a...
Joyo got caught on the side wall, and nobody back to the fence for GK.
This is just Joyo, been in no man's land.
I think he was turning in to get for the boost, or go for the boost,
and that's just the wrong turn.
You gotta go back the other way.
You ideally rotate into the net, and maybe he didn't read that play properly.
I mean, his POV, he's seeing Seiko right behind the ball there, maybe expecting a 50.
So he turns up to do the quick attack, but just didn't have the full picture on the playoff.
If he's turning up, too, he's just gonna be on the side wall.
Awkward play, positioning, not ideal for GK, and here comes more offense with Furia.
Not letting out the gas.
Aptak, one clear down the other side, does feel very one-sided for the one for Aster.
Here comes the abject. It proved me wrong. Maybe they got something else cooking in the oven.
Still GK waiting for it to get the 10th gear. Jack will flip off.
Thought he could get the 50. Still comes back. No boost spawned for joyo.
And boy, what a chance he might have had. And he does get it. He does get it.
The bi-language of his car. He saw that bounce up. It's like, yeah, hot dog, hot dog.
Loved that from him. And here he is again on the defense.
That's a little air dribble fairy, but Swift hadn't run the entire way through.
Not only do Fury have this offense, but it looks like they've got the game locked out.
There's Dan. Nice bump. Physical play coming through.
But here comes Fiora. We know what that man's capable of.
It's interesting watching the evolution of this Fiora team.
Even with Swift on the roster, they still have a much more measured approach on the ball.
They have good pressure, but you don't feel like they're having to fly in super strong.
Trying to out-aggress you at every moment.
Here's Seiko with a beautiful follow-up touch.
I thought that was going to be some pressure,
but Jack and Joyo are actually far back on that play to Reef.
And now back to Yan with a...
Oh, don't forget.
Mark Turrell, you needed to send two there.
Seiko picks up the same.
I mean, I think that's how good the Fury offense is at this moment.
You got to send two players if you wanted to get in front of these shots.
Abjack only takes one from loss to get in front of him.
And Fury, I mean, you're right.
It's very controlled from them.
You know what they're capable of with this offense.
The aggression came...
Even I'd say go up another notch, but right now they're contained, they're controlled and they want to keep their composure
and carry this game to the ground 50 seconds to go. Let's see if there's any more flight with GK.
Furia covered the demo.
Swift will come across Furia, take a lot of the boosts.
Ball kicks away from Yankee, and he passed down Field Joyo.
It was going to be hard to actually make Lost uncomfortable enough, but he just stole the boost.
Got back forward, followed through.
Reached down!
Yeah!
Darko Perfuria!
That is just routine Perfuria lost.
Taken it by himself, grabbed the midfield boost and look at the delay from Seiko.
He's so slow to get to that challenge and even when he's arrived he's getting absolutely
dunked on in that 50.
Well such a great read from Lawson of the Place.
Oh how high.
Yeah.
Up to the outside of the ball that Seiko was.
He knows I just have to beat him here.
Get it around to the left.
Swift almost picking up the fourth goal here at the end of game one.
Joyo has to hustle just to get that one off the post.
And the reset, eventually going in for that bump.
And the boost game, every time I see a player from Furia
rotating in, they're not only getting a touch on the ball,
but they're stealing a full boost pad, GK,
even if they can break out of their own half.
They've got nothing left in the tank.
The opportunity's coming their way.
With that jack up there, even if it's a miraculous solo
play that might trickle in, it's not enough.
Furia come out swinging in game one.
Well, Gets talked about it on the desk.
He said it's either going to be a five game thriller that GK
went for a 3-0 from Furia.
I think that's the most, like, chad call of all time.
What I heard you say that, I was like, that feels so accurate.
We're either going to get a nail biter that goes the distance.
And I think in that situation, GK would scrape out
with the win, or Furia just stomped right now in the series.
Well, if you saw on the alt stream,
we have a little score bug come up.
Virtus.pro did end up taking a game versus Falcons.
those first two games, weren't looking too good for Virtus.Pro, but they end up taking
game three. I believe they're already down one goal to Falcons in game four right now.
So we got lots of matches between the Alternative Stream and this one. GK, you could say on
the score turtle, they were in this match, but if we looked at the total time of possession
just by five, I mean four out of them.
Just by vibes.
Just by vibes.
But yeah, I'm not going to give you percentages on halfs. I'm like, I'm furious, four
half minutes right just then possessing the ball and not giving GK anything as soon as we got into that game
We knew how things felt. I mean you're talking about vibes
You could tell that the positioning of every single player from Fiora they were forcing themselves forward
It was they didn't even knock at the door
They just barged in yeah, and Fiora were dominant throughout the entire game
I'd say little little bits of moments here and there for GK obviously
We can't count them out, but they're gonna have to bring something special
maybe it's gonna be the fake kickoff where nobody goes for it. Double fake kickoff and
both are both defenders back on each side as well. Yeah it's just such a nice
little awkward silence where people can feel out the game to see what's going on.
But Abjack, okay off the kickoff here he is by himself. This is exactly what GK needed.
Abjack often is already sitting down field but this was dropping defense there from
Fiora Yan was moving up. I honestly would need another look at the POV there to see exactly who
Broke down there on the rotation, but Jack will take advantage of it being on the other side of the field
But you can't get their first lead of the series
I wonder how Joio won that challenge. It was such a dominant win. He's gonna have popped it out to this field
That's where things started. I said it was a solo player from abject
But Joio absolutely involved. Swift was to get one back for his team and this is actually quite the opposite
Previously in game one it was all Fiora
right off the gates, but I think GK are a little bit upset with how G1 went.
Now GK, this is not the most possession, but we've seen them have here, Joyo.
Could catch, actually might have found a pass.
Jack's sitting close to third man, enough time for, they seem to rotate back.
And yeah, a good bounce right for Joyo.
Yann had done a lot of work to beat two defenders, wasn't it not?
I was hoping maybe we get a pinch there from Seiko and Noeo, it looked like they wanted to connect slightly.
But things are slowing down, I'd say it's become more of a battle of counter attacks.
We can quickly get down the other side, maybe catch Yan off guard again, that was the first goal for GK.
Are they just going to try and play a punishing game?
The patient approach, that could be something that's in their arsenal, but you have to wait and find out first goal.
Obviously in favor of GK, but it looks like Furia, they could smell something in the air, especially with that boost grab from Yan.
I've lost he tried to get it right back to him with that hard touch on the corner
It works out still he and has to use all of his boost set just for this 50 try to squeeze Jack out of the play
Fury are really pushing forward here
Real tight on the rotation swift forced to the other side say go off ball. No
article and he lost the ball
And denied apparently Jack easily denies it swift trying to buy time to get some boost in the midfield
A few moments here, I'm a big concern for the way GK's approach to these challenges.
They're slow to get up in the air, I mean look at his loss, there's a lot of time he can get the follow-up.
And that's not something you want to do if you're up against Fury, giving them space in the air is,
I mean that's lethal, dangerous territory for the defensive GK.
A bit of a ground-wifty-wifty.
Jack does freeze the Furia backline for a moment.
Swift, hard 50, lost play right behind him.
It skirts out too far.
Yan forced to go back.
Here we go again, an extended Furia possession.
Reload in their own half.
50 in front of the third.
How much more just yet?
That's a boost grab.
And a demo lost.
So much work there on the rotation,
even when he's off the ball.
It's got to turn again on the side wall looking to get this one to the midfield unable to find something that's moving to a player
A solo attempt solo plays and they're hoping the GK defense will so show at least a couple of cracks in their armor
That's much better game possession wise from GK
We're talking about fury pretty much only in all of it in game number one, but they score that first goal early
Oh, Swift. Look at all the time, though.
Seiko's getting a win on the 50, but it's right back in the hands of Furia,
and that's where I'm scared, Jor-Bee.
Even this space of, I don't know if I have too much confidence with GK holding things down.
Good speedy read from Joyo.
Oh, oh.
And this all starts from Joyo.
Getting a quick read here, already up in the area, too heavy of a touch.
And that puts the teammate in an awkward spot.
Swift can't get any kind of power to the corner.
Making it easy for Joyo Jack, showing his emotion there with a 2-0 lead here for GK.
It's an awkward spot, but I still feel like a very manageable position for Swift.
Could have saved that flip, not making the best contacts.
That's two goals where it does feel like just punishments out of GK.
I haven't had to work too hard for it. Obviously, they're in the proper position
and able to hold things down. But ideally for Furia, those are goals you're not
giving up because you can create chances on the other side.
At the end, Furia is popping off.
Very much a bang bang touch here from Yan.
Receiving this pass, and look how tight that window was.
Seiko getting up in the air.
He can't find the read, but Ken,
he's got to make that read instantly.
Get the touch, Yan, does enough to get power on it
to get through MNs.
Furia is still alive in game two.
It's just crazy to see Yan not get faked out,
but a whole lot of second to kick off.
I'm able to get a touch out of Furia.
It was a shot opportunity for GK.
That's back, back in the midfield.
They got a really awkward bounce in the corner off the kickoff and lost doesn't have any boost on that touch
He has got to get
Something a little more productive there instead lost with no boost kicks it away from the rotation setting up an easy pass
And you keep talking about fury and mistakes being punished that keeps happening now
I mean obviously you got to get hats off to GK and respect what they're able to do and these goals have been
Impressive of course clinical in the right position able to punish at the difficult thing to do
Especially at this level of rocket league, but for fury
I think they're quite literally playing themselves at this point on the defensive have good bits of offense again is obviously proven himself with that double tap
Just comes down to holding it on the defensive side not letting these mistakes get away from you and keeping possession
Swift had a window
What a pass back to lost. It was easily read though. Joyo front and center almost another goal
With 30 minus left to play here
Action rolls by Seiko Furia looking for just a little time left on the clock as they try
Sir Seiko tried to stay with it still Furia have a chance. GK keep getting in front of it
Drop down nobody has a furia huge clear for GK
All the Furia go forward, switch with nothing,
Yan with a demo,
Yan trying to get two bumps out of it,
he gets nothing,
and GK will collect their first game win.
Ooh, poor Seiko there in the last moments.
I think he was handling two players,
hand-hunting him, trying to take him out,
and that's gonna be GK bouncing back in game number two.
And just stolen from that.
It's one thing to talk about them being able to punish,
but like I said, that's a difficult thing, Jor-B.
You're handling this pressure from Furia,
which is overwhelming, they're stealing your boost,
and you still managed to get the ball down the other side
and put shots on target.
Makes the road easy and clear, though, for Furia.
We got to short up some of these touches.
They were still in the game.
Yan hits that double tap to come back
where you receive the pass.
And then Yan mis-touches the ball right in the midfield
after the kickoff and gives GK a pass to play to Joyo
to put the game out of reach.
And it was an even game here for pressure.
Kind of both teams with eight shots of peace.
And it didn't feel incredibly one-sided.
There's a couple of moments where you're wondering
what happened like this one was swift.
I know it's a difficult read.
Come on down fast.
I understand that, but you've got to put that ball
in the corner better, Jordan.
You've got to save your flip.
Any bit of contact has to get pushed there.
I know he's not in the ideal situation,
but that's one where you want to make a deep run
in this tournament.
Little mistakes like that can not
come through in your game play.
GK capitalizing on it, and the grind begins
for both of these teams heading into game number three.
Still, you liked what you saw
if you're a Fioria fan in that first game.
Yeah, I don't expect them to just keep making mistakes for the rest of the series
But I think one thing I really liked from GK was just being able to hold pressure a lot more
Yeah, something they weren't able to do at all even when fury won't make a mistakes in game to they actually were able to hold
Pressure. Yeah, actually protect some boost. I don't think they were completely dominant in the boost grabbing game
But they were way better than the right game one gave them a lot of Alex where they didn't have them before
I just thought they were able to absorb the pressure of fury. Yeah much more
or calmly. I mean, they were very collected.
And I think that if you're a GK fan,
that's a huge sign right now.
And they've laid the foundations for me.
They've got that foundation of being able to punish,
holding them on defense, like I said,
absorbing the pressure.
But now what else do you have?
Do you have anything else in your special bag here,
your magic tricks?
What can you bring out?
This is crazy.
You got a little dyna drive here between Jack and Faco.
Oh, my.
You can even give them a little limbo wobble there.
That's a little crowned handoff right between them.
Abjack on the little, on the handoff with that first time.
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead to the jab.
Yeah, flip sit back to save throw, that was sick.
And I was just talking about it.
They laid the foundation, Jor-B.
What more do you have?
Can you bring us some mechanics,
something special to creativity?
And of course, it's exactly what we get.
Best way to start out this game for GK.
Hold on a second, Furia.
They've got something to say themselves.
Dude, look at this 50 from long.
Absolutely muscless.
GK on this play catch.
He uses the stall to get him across.
I think he just
At that point, but he got a perfect 50 when he spammed a boost to to remain at least in a good position to get a better 50-50
bounce off the pack for fury a
It felt like GK might have run away with the series there, but an immediate immediate deny
Yeah, nice catch on the reset
You're here really have been trying to squeeze on offense see Malton particular has been
and pushing up on low boost a lot as that second man.
Most times that's okay.
Third man's been able to handle business.
Saw how Swifty make him just a little uncomfortable
and maybe he cost that ball up.
GK so far handling business in the midfield,
getting it back to the orange house.
I'm not gonna lie to you, Jorbi.
I have, there's so much more confidence now
from my perspective on GK just with that previous scope.
But look at the passing, swift and lost.
Back and forward.
I think that is always a big question
for me watching GK throughout this series
They're not serious, it's gonna be season.
I think they've got all this experience
and WayPunk mentioned it, you know,
I didn't pass their prime, that's probably a question
they're asking themselves, what more we have?
Can the hunger still push us to newer heights
that we've never seen before?
And I wanna witness what more of these players
are capable of here in Boston.
You know, we weren't talking about the same,
like, who's struggling to get that fifth seed?
The extra spot aren't so far doing well to adjust,
and even so much control here against Fiora,
They keep getting pushed back to the box.
Yance forced to save.
Jack gets the boost still.
He got Seiko stacked up here.
Joyo third man.
Jack actually just sitting up.
Joyo seeing no play goes right back to get the 50.
It's been a very grounded game two for GK.
The first goal was with the handoff from Abjack
on the dribbles.
I've seen him multiple times now bringing this ball down,
collecting it in his own hat.
Here he is, of course, staying on it,
making sure he can find some 50-50s,
taking uncomfortable for losses,
just itching to get that goal
and just take the lead in game number three
because it's been an even battlefield so far, Joe.
Yeah, no play in front of the box for Furia and popped up high.
Nobody from GK can get there.
Furia find a way to stop them.
Downfield is Yan.
Yan, welcome back.
Such a weak touch from Yan.
You did have a lot of coverage.
You won't get a double tap try.
Good 50 in the midfield to buy Furia some time
and now Swift wanted lost downfield,
Wanted a quick go, lost didn't like what he saw turns off the play, Swift with a bump, lost sees the speed, no moves for Swift.
And this is a crazy sign here for all of Furia. There's very few moments where we'll see the ball trickle into the half of GK and there's not a first man getting aggressive.
And I'm looking at the boost counts right now. It does look like Furia aren't unable to steal anything, making it uncomfortable for GK who have tightened up and really created a fortress at defense.
And now they're able to comfortably take some shots on net couple of testers to see what that defense is capable of for Furia
Swift no boosts apparently Jack
Dancers around to and the end will take to the skies
And Seiko follows him the whole way through
Seiko for covering off that touch and it's right to join off a switch challenge
lower game
GK they're gonna be able to break out once more it took the defensive dribbles from abjack
They break out onto the scene in this game
From furia, yeah, really haven't seen much of it. They've been able to handle business on defense get those
Safety touches that you were talking about that couldn't get before on defense
Well and have that taken a little bit of wind out of their sail though because now the aggression might be paying the price
for their tightening up on defense, okay?
I do still think they're stacking up pretty tight on offense.
They're just choosing not to go a little more often.
They haven't been given a look.
I think that's credit to GK's defense so far in game three.
But it's getting tight as time trickles down.
Again, off the ceiling, he got lost up next.
Swift wants to move forward.
And he'll actually just go straight up and challenge.
And he can't get there in time.
Sanko, late in the game heavily.
And I don't think anybody from Furia thought he had enough boost.
Swift was the last man back.
He took the bait.
Didn't expect a follow-up touch from Seiko.
And that's going to be another situation
where Furia's defense just can't stand the test of time.
It was deceptive.
Like, Seiko's moving slower first.
And Swift is like, I need to go, or I need to get back.
And I felt like it took an extra half second
for him to figure out which one to do.
It was just a little too much.
So now Furia in danger of going down in this series after starting strong in game number one.
Trying to get this one back. They lose their boosts.
No chance for loss. He's got the black cat of the end through the eye.
And he has somehow keeps the lids open.
I sweat.
10 seconds.
He's stuck down.
Furia desperate just to keep the ball out of their own net.
And there's no time left.
GK has closed the vice grip.
And just need to put it down on the ground.
And they will no longer get to land.
Nobody's got boost though.
He has got like 40 here.
Easily challenged.
Oh, they're not over yet.
Oh, he turns off the ball.
He decides maybe he thought his teammate was getting there.
I refuse to believe it.
I still think there was a chance.
I still think there was a chance
that ball could have gotten popped up.
Maybe like five more boosts.
But regardless, that's GK holding it down.
Like you said, Jorbey tightening the grip
and just can't help but feel like it's still
that plague of last man back out of fury
making the wrong decision and not reading the play and the pace of the game well from GP
That seems like third man is not being kind to Swift right now
And it's not that we're picking on them. It's just those were the critical moments and again
I think it was just credit credit the key case defense right right because we talk about furious aggression waning
They're still positioning aggressively that first play was so sick from G
Doing stuff like that in game one. They never really had possession
But their defense so much cleaner, they're boost grabbing much better, not letting Furia
dominate in that respect and they could use so much more to support this Furia attack
who keep trying to tighten them up, or tighten up GK on their half.
It hasn't worked.
So Furia will call a timeout and try to get things back on the right foot.
Bruno gonna talk to the boys and see what they can do.
I just feel like it's a very comfortable game still for GK.
And that was what I was talking about.
I have how I got convinced that GK are here to play
and to win this series because, like you mentioned,
they need that little spark on offense.
It doesn't have to be anything crazy.
They've proven that their defense can absorb
and really withstand against any aggression
that Fira are going to throw at them.
It just came down to me.
OK, how can you create chances now on the offensive side?
You got Abjag leading the way.
If we still continue to see that,
I think this is a GK win.
But Fira have some time now to hopefully tighten
up their defense.
And how do you do that? How do you fix that last man back?
The third man issues while at the same time,
still staying aggressive and being the fury
that we know and love.
Yeah, can you make GK feel some discomfort here?
Because on defense does not really feel like
they felt any of it.
They've had an answer for everything
fury had thrown at them.
Whether that's changing up how they position on offense.
Whether, you know, you try to get more creative.
Whatever they want to try to do,
goal to make GK more uncomfortable has to happen because so far they have just
Roped away control of this series right and it looks like it's theirs to lose right now
I do think you know furia especially with how aggressive they can get on offense. It's a very momentum based game if GK slip up
One single second one step and you give furia an inch
I mean they are going to barge through the door and make it so difficult for the rest of these series
I think he came you close it out now Jack went for the hard shot
It was just off the bar a really good idea off the kickoff Jack not that they started stealing boost immediately
They got one of those corners as well. It looked like it was all coming together there for GK in the opening 10 seconds
Jack had to come around
What that shot on they don't get it fury are still getting bumped though
That's the answer man a bump for a bump and yet tries to recover
Not going to happen though, Joyo with a free touch and Furia feeling the heat from G.K. right now.
I don't think anybody from Furia does that last man back saco with an open that miss off the crossbar.
We got a double commit from Furia. Everybody panicked and it was wide open, Jor-Bee.
We'll see if that one comes back to hot them.
Yeah.
Great save. That one looked good from G.K.
Another demo.
G.K. are trying to put him to sleep right now.
Ooh, I got scared for a second.
Joyo off the backboard. The mechanical wizard.
I thought we were going to see something special.
It's also looking dangerous for Abjack, who's hustling to get back.
Last man.
I'm not too concerned that a GK, that third man, is always very, very composed and knows how to handle business.
Midfield, Yan going for the ball. Looks like it didn't spawn for Joyo.
That's what decent did be with that follow-up again.
A little slow, a little behind, Furia forced to play more defense.
Yann, just trying to trip Choyle on his 50 up.
And after Jack already up, sees the space, Furia try to close the gap.
Seiko, had a nice move around the corner.
Swift though with control again, a little bit of pressure now for Furia.
Lost, has to come across, that's how much they feel they need to create some space.
Lost having to go lateral about close to the middle of the field just to get some breathing room.
Jack getting a demo on lost, back down field.
field. Here's a deep hit from Seiko. Denied. I think Jack, he can sense that that third
man has a bit of instability out of Furia and with these demos you're adding
even more pressure to the rotation. He's getting aggressive to one player out of
GK who wants to extend his rotation. That just might be what breaks this
defense but we're yet to see it. Joyo off the backboard. Go off young man
down to Seiko and there's the first goal. Catch him down field and quick.
They start this from their own corner.
Seiko gets beautiful power on the touch,
forcing loss to get back and have to make that read.
But with Joyo getting that extra little touch,
the read becomes impossible.
And GK, again, find a way to get the early lead
and just will not let Kiria have any fun.
Well, it just feels very reminiscent
as well to that previous Seiko goal
where they've got more boost to take.
It's that extra little touch.
Everybody from Kiria laughing their back,
jumping so early, Jorbi, and don't know how to read
where GK are trying to go.
They do know how to play offense and Fira look to be very comfortable right now
hunting for their first goal.
Fira trying to play a bit more advanced.
The man getting downfield trying to get a bump. They're connecting on bumps.
But they're not getting to that.
Now they're going to defend hard shots like that to get a favorable bounce.
Off the rebound, lost.
Picks up a demo on his way to the ball.
He gets a hard touch out, but Jack cuts him out.
Yeah, hard hit and a nice one.
What's the need to pair with Jack?
What? Let him in that easel!
I mean, after that, but this man's getting demoed.
He's running back.
Finding goal line saves.
He's everywhere on the pitch.
And there he is again with the clear on the defensive side.
This man can do it all.
He right now is the player to watch for GK holding
and putting his team on the shoulders.
He just got their finger on the pendulum.
You saw Fiora try a fake, and GK were ready for that.
They don't believe in your offense right now.
They believe in their score.
Nice footwork up there from Joyo, but could not get control of that ball.
Curia getting knocked down in the plate, they still get the ball downfield.
Just see, he's constantly harassing everybody from Curia.
Now here he is again, behind the ball.
Joyo grabbing some moves, two players in the same spot.
Four, Curia, they've got to figure out something on the offensive side.
They keep calling for some type of goal, some type of aggression.
Anybody with a play, some spark of creativity to get them,
And they're pushed through the door.
Otherwise, round one, not going to go their way.
Swift, the pitch just bounces away from the floor.
Joyo gets to play a 50.
He's trying to get it from Yan to get it back out to Swift.
Again, you're working on borrowed boost right now.
But you've got the midfield after he lost possession.
Lost trying to get back in front of it.
And Swift together with Swift can't find the muck.
Seiko avoids him.
Furia trying to build more pressure there
off the side wall back to Yan.
Off the wall, it's covered.
Joyo gets his boost as well.
Swift trying to shake it out.
But again, no one around here for Furia.
Jack first to the punch.
And I think Furia feel it in their jaw right now.
This is the final push to the finish line for GK.
Match point, 20 seconds to go.
Holding it down with all this pressure,
you know Furia are going to set the house.
Joyo just trying to hold the ball.
Furia expecting a push on the 50.
Gann up, but he's beaten by Seiko.
Leaving Swift, the only man back.
And with no time left, has the boost.
Wait, wait, wait.
He flipped his backwards, passed it off to lost.
He needs some more.
Joy of a mighty bear, straight down to the ground.
GK convincing 3-1 victory over Furia.
Taking the first win here in the group.
And that might just be the experience
everybody was talking about.
To stay level-headed, even when it got difficult
at the beginning, Furia came out the gates,
just gone to play.
And Gordy, they were here to play.
They had the aggression, but those small little mistakes
in defense ended up just bursting open shooting lanes
left and right for GK.
They didn't have to send too many players forward.
They kept it locked in on defense and carried out the game.
Fury got a lot to think about before heading
into their next game.
It started off so well for them.
Yeah, a lot of stick touches from them.
They had good aggression, but then could not
Adjust after GK
That way and it's tough because they have some good fifties
But then there were so many plays where it was just we're surviving. This is a surviving touch. Our team needs boost
We got to go back. Oh, we got a 50 into space. Well, nobody's there
It's you know, you're not the domino down, but you can set them up, right?
Only free fall and I don't want to be super dramatic here because this is obviously the first day
There's plenty of time plenty of chances for fury to get back into this one
But from my perspective, if I'm a player on that in this venue right now, and I just experience what period it is
That's such a frustrating and tilting game to lose because it felt like they were just playing themselves
Tripping over their own feet for me and handling that it's just so painful to do
Especially when it's your first game in round one. Well, GK EU 5
Trying to punch their spot to a playoff ticket. Can they do it? Let's hear from GK with Lee. Please. What do you got?
So it's true that we've already discussed with a few teams until now and it's clear that
maybe we need to get back into the bench, get back into the habits of the LANs, etc.
Is it the same thing for you? Do you have the impression for GK?
No, I think we prepared well with the bootcamp we did there.
We prepared well for this plan.
I think we don't really have this pressure or anything.
We know what we're worth and we proved it.
We're just the best right now.
So I think we will find.
Well I'm going to ask for you specifically from your background, your experience,
the last three teams in that, you've had a lot of French communication coming onto a team
where that's not going to happen unless you've been teaching them.
Has there been a hard transition for you adapting to maybe different style of comms or a language?
So, your last teams were more like French, between you.
We imagine you speak English, but we don't know if you've learned French.
How did it go for you to come back to English communication?
How did you adapt to that?
It's true that the English teams are a bit of an in-ears, it's not very complicated either.
Just where? It's a bit more when you don't want to, when you want to explain something during the game, it's a bit more complicated.
But otherwise, I had already had English teams, I had already been in English before.
So it's a bit like the bike, it's not really forgotten.
English-speaking teams earlier, so I feel like it just came back quite easily, you know.
Right, so you're riding a bicycle, essentially.
Now for the squad, you've got a lovely bunch of energetic folks behind you.
We see them popping off, there's Joyo right now.
Outside of the games, have you guys been doing anything
to make sure that camaraderie stays very strong
and that energy stays up between games as well?
We have the feeling that the energy is going well between you.
Did you do some activities outside the matches to keep that energy between you,
this vibe, maybe more, do you get used to each other together?
No, not really, it's something that has really happened all by itself.
It's always been a bit like that.
We've always shown our energy, we all feel very good.
So it just matched directly.
No, it came quite easily to be fair.
It just became like that on the first day.
first day and you know we just you know like having friends we have a really
good energy between each other so no it just came just like that you know.
The fans can be happy you heard it it's natural they're having fun and it's not
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You can see the excitement in Zen's camera. He knew that was coming. All he had to do was wait.
Diaz just flat-tired here. No boost, no options, and reveal spawning off of the other demo that already happened
is going to open up some space. Vitality up 1-0 with about 100 to go.
Exotics not going to get aiming on the scoreboard for it, but he does all the hard work of taking out
two space station gamers and let Zen have the glory to put in the first goal with a minute 33 left to go.
left to go. Space Station doesn't need to be too worried because they've looked almost like the better team for the majority of these minutes.
They just let a couple demos go through. They need to try and not let this game get stolen by Vitality.
And Zen on the back wall, made it into a 50s. This is there to wait. And now we'll send it out ahead.
Zen, maybe a miss on the side wall as Reveal tries to set 1-2 across the lane of the pitch.
But nobody there to follow that up. So it's going to be a quick double touch from Vitality to clear it out.
It's here now, it says he thanks it to the ceiling, but doesn't get it much further than that.
Zen. So almost nobody, and I think that actually kind of caught Reveal by surprise.
I think he's expecting somebody to challenge. He takes it to the air immediately.
When he finds the extra space, he's not sure what to do with it.
They better come up with a plan quick though, with 45 seconds to go.
The opportunities are starting to dwindle for Space Station to get back into this game.
They'll calm collected patients from Reveal, but it'll only go right back to Zen.
It makes it awkward for Chronic, and that will open some space for Exotic to find another.
another vitality up 2-0. Zenn not shooting here in this position and when we went against
chronic he just found a sweet spot on the back wall it's not the best defensive play from chronic but
i want to give some of that credit to Zenn it can be hard to get that full 180 turn and get the
right clear he put it in the most awkward spot for chronic and gets rewarded. All right well
game one was looking to be pretty close between the two teams and i think it's necessarily going
to turn into a blowout like what we just saw between Falcons and TP but this definitely
isn't how space station we're hoping this game was going to go off.
They're definitely in their favor for at least the first half.
The back half, the same cannot be said.
What a goal from Zen.
No one is going to remember the scoreless first half of the way
Zen is playing now.
What a redirect to make it 3-0.
Sure, space station were holding their own for a bit,
but it's nomination from Vitality at the end of this game.
3-0, man.
I don't think that with the way that this game started,
we were anticipating this today.
be a shutout in favor of Vitality and for B to beat this large of a goal margin right now.
Vitality, they took a second to get going, but once B started to buzz, my goodness,
could you hear it all over the arena? This game is going to be wonderful to get for Space Station.
Like you said, kind of feels like one that they should have won. They did not, though. Vitality up 1-0.
Maybe they should have gotten the goal. At this point, it's hard to say they should have
won with the way Vitality ended. I think they were always going to, you know, finish off this
game in the lead but space station nothing to show yet from a decent bit of offense. Is that going to
get in their head going forward? They should feel pretty good. You know, if I'm coaching space
station gaming roster, I'm not too worried. I'm sure Zen peaked here there to make this one a bit
of a blowout but surely you don't always have to expect Zen to peek, right? Surely he doesn't do
it again. Right? You could bet on Zen not doing it again I think. I wouldn't. I would personally
I would not do that because again this is the version of Zen we've been kind of waiting
for man. It's been a very long time since we've seen Zen in that just sort of like we
said world Peter form but when he is there good luck to anybody who dares to face him
and unfortunately for space station I think they kind of gave him the availability to
do that in game one. It took a bit to ramp up to get to 11 but now that he's there
Quick look turning the dial back and getting him underneath that level of play.
Space Station gonna have to try to change some stuff up because again,
beginning that game looked awkward for Vitality.
After that, it never did again.
Exotic's double demo really broke it open.
And then after the first goal went in,
it was just go after goal for Vitality.
So shout out to Exotic for cleaning up that defense.
That's something that Space Station is probably more known for as well.
At least the old Space Station roster I know reveal
loves himself a good demo even to this day with this new one.
Maybe that's what they'll need in this game.
Number two, the kickoff's going to go back to Diaz
as he looks to make the first play.
Got a chance here for Space Station to respond quickly,
and they will off the kickoff
and immediate shot from Croy finds back in the net.
It's just so surprising here.
Zen got chased off, I think, by Reveal.
Stizzy's waiting in there.
It just didn't feel like a moment
that should have been a goal.
But I guess Zen, everyone was expecting him
to get a touch there in the corner,
and that Reveal chased down was enough for him
to leave the play and then send and realize no boost for his teammates so that net is open
if you slot at top right.
And that's what Space Station did.
This is a good response for the loss in game number one.
Oh dude, I wanted that, I wanted that D-A-Z-R-E-D-E-R-A-K.
That would have been something pretty.
I mean, hey, it's already a prettier picture than what we saw in game one.
Shut out for a full five minutes in game one.
It doesn't even take them a minute in game number two and they're already back on
offense.
Chase them down is reveal.
He doesn't really get much of that ball but he doesn't want to with these
keep them out of the corner and keep Vitaliy uncomfortable.
Like we said, they started off game one looking this way.
They did not stay that way for long,
but with another clean lead here that goes right back
into the half for SSG, so far Vitaliy,
looking like they might need to take a second
to redo and configure themselves.
L'Beal's gonna have a good chance on the ball
as he takes it in the corner
and no one there would test him
while they catch his loving himself.
Back wall dashes as he tries to cut across the net,
looking for demos to extend the play.
He's gonna have a chance to dribble
like his teammate Diaz is known for, but actually immediately challenged, and now Diaz with a chance on the side wall.
Exotic, upstrand, something like that, another chase down demo by Reveal,
that actually manages to dodge it all and get the clear.
That's maybe my favorite demo chase I've ever seen.
In all of RLCS history, Rowan all the way up the back wall, truth be sealing to chase him,
and it might pay off for Space Station.
That shot denied, the bottle off, torg in and off the bar.
The space station is starting to find their wings in this one, man. They're doing a good job of making challenges mid-air.
They're doing a good job of getting the physicality in.
Yes, they might do a good job of doing it. All himself chronic with the follow-up shot, but it's not going to get past Zen.
Yes, maybe outplays those Zen, even though he's on offense now, took all the boost to get here.
We could expect to see space station controllers, although exotic, making a great play on his own.
And Zen can attack straight to the net, it's in!
All right, you know what? Space Station, I'll give you this one.
I don't blame you for conceding here, because who would ever imagine this shot?
It's technically a bit of a Diaz. He tries to keep close to it in the corner,
but poor reveal is just at the mercy of wherever that ricochet is off the ceiling.
It bounces down and goes straight on in, and Vitality, it's a weird one,
but they will tie up the game.
Probably on Diaz to have the ball a little bit more secure in the corner.
He thought he was going to be able to get multiple touches in a row before Zen beat him,
but Zen is fast into the ball and if he's Sonic,
he's gonna tap this over at the end.
This is revealed to Mikjord,
he's trying to fake here to get to the up in the air.
He's got him diced up to the backboard,
but Zen, wait, Zen's done it up.
He needs to make a great recovery save
in order to not allow the shot.
You see, probably gotta pause there for a second.
Oh, he did not anticipate that he would even get
that shot as it came off the ceiling.
I don't think they were anticipating that.
He turned into a shot.
And he's getting a little bit weird here
as both teams are just kinda challenging
50s that aren't really being too controlled and are just kind of flying out in these odd directions.
It's been to the benefit of neither team technically as nobody's been able to do all too much with it.
Yes, the first goal for Zen does go that way.
Now we're starting to see SSG with chances almost identical.
As soon as the play in this game, it is either team's ballgame here,
but maybe a chance for a reveal.
Sissi, low boost and good control.
Let's take another 50, but Zen just cool and beats him to get it off that.
Yeah, it's over the top of exotic forcing that jumps and boosts the attacking corner by
considering this play reveal playing on nothing, demo offscreen.
It's going around trying to get everybody.
Cronix will 50 and 0.
Vitality vs. SSG continues on the alternate stream.
and stream twitch.tv slash rl esports remember to have both broadcast stuff to get all the action here
in boston this day one continues gk and if you're in a game a little bit of a fright at the beginning
it was like i was gonna be close and then gk locked them up quite the competition and they moved on
with a win in their group how you feeling so far about the day how'd you like that i that felt
like a really awkward match it was like gk did so much research to get like the most impenetrable
armor they shielded themselves up with like titanium steel and the fury came out
just like poke them. Exactly! It's weird because we know that fury could just come
out swinging it. Exactly we didn't see that. Yeah you didn't see that actually
and it was very very lackluster from Fury. I got the stats I'm gonna guess what I got.
Go for it. Get it at Normie watching that series. GK's been a hundred eighty more
seconds on defense. They've been a hundred seconds less on offense.
Here you had a hundred seconds more offense in the attacking third and a hundred more seconds in the neutral third
And they only shot the ball seven more times and matter of fact look at this one
They had seven less demos in the series! How's that possible? It's like what the turd will say it's like
They had to buy Graham, Sue and GK and he's now came with a pencil. And that's one of those just you're playing corner ball, right?
You're on offense, right? We'll just keep the offense at the same corner over and over and over again
It doesn't matter if you're on offense,
if you don't get any scoring chances out of it,
and Fury just had nothing go.
And I got scared because, you know,
we see this a lot where teams will get very defensive,
they have good defense,
but then they can't get themselves out
on the offensive half.
But it was after that, in my opinion,
right here on your screen,
that was doing so much work to keep the momentum,
not only on the defensive side,
but then doing work on the offense.
Yeah, but those two goals, too,
were just gifted as well.
Like, defense just lapsed on that last goal.
And the playing for that,
all three members are just way too far on field.
So if you're, I think they got frustrated on offense at times, so then they were trying over commit and it did not work.
Well, I mean at this level they should know and they notice that you're not going to be the team like this, but I'll hit them.
It doesn't matter how much possession you have, as long as they have all three people and they need to somewhere between 20 or 30 boosts, sometimes even 10 boosts, they're going to stop every single thing you do.
That gives their teammates time to rotate in and it's going to be rent and repeat. You caught a cornerball, that's what they play. You don't hit them, you lose the game.
Both matches in group B here for round one went to game four.
These matches were not made equal though.
Falcons did beat VP 15 to three in terms of goals.
So quite a one-sided affair between those two squads there.
They'll look to bounce back in round number two.
Let's move on to the big one, the bad one.
It's group C action finally here on day one.
Group C was coined a group of deaths the moment it was formed.
It was the first group we knew officially would be here.
space station twisted mines by tallying karmic war oh my goodness we need a word that is worse than death because this is the hardest
We've ever seen in rlcs history
These four teams a lot of people have them all power ranks in the top eight and they're all in the same group at worst
Top ten for all four of these teams and a lot of that is due to the mean of two seed having a low seat
Because last year didn't go that well with twisted mines brand new roster obviously though with monkeymen coming over and TRK
So that has made that team so much better. And obviously the NA4 seating space station has looked fantastic as well. So K-Corp
you're
You had a tough road in Europe
So you get the one seed and I have the hardest group of everyone
So it's gonna be very interesting to see because K-Corp
I think our favorites to win this tournament or at least one of those three
But because of the difficulty of their group they could possibly not play on the weekend
They could possibly we'll see how things go
We got two more days of action to get through before we know for certain vitality versus space station
They've gone to overtime in game number two on the alternate stream
Make sure you've got it pulled up here on the mainstream lots more action to go before we close out our broadcast for the day
Just saw that gk versus curia matchup. Let's get into the next one. Carming color
Twisted mind
So much man, what is it? What is it? What is this anime somebody let me know some might fit me on Twitter?
What anime is he watching that has some character that has a tongue at all time?
That's clearly what he's been watching. I'll tell you this. This KC squad, Vati.
Three-time major champion, EWC champion, PFE champion. He's won everything. He's won everything
but the world champion. He's got a new squad right here to pick up juice. He could draw,
he left them. already came off with a Copenhagen kickoff win and they won with two of the three,
two of the three in EU Sutter. Still looking great. Gibbs calls him out of time and
There's an argument that Ato has been playing better.
Yeah, Ato did not.
He's just generally better at the game.
Oh, yeah, your top 25 list last night.
Disrespectful to Ato, who should have been number one,
at least on one of these lists, because he's
been the best player in case he all split long gas
and out the tier, his name value.
He is always so consistent.
But Ato, in his new role on the team,
has really elevated his game.
But I was concerned that K-Corp would fall back down
a bit because they lost draw.
No, they don't fall.
It did not matter at all.
They still dominated.
They just had one bluddish in that final open,
but everyone expects them to be on Championship Sunday,
battle one for another major title.
Yeah, but then you're picking up Juicy to try
and just complete that duo and make it a trio here,
as well as the new coach with extra.
I think that KC, I mean, they took the first major
in the last season, and now, obviously,
I think a lot of us expect that to happen once more
with the kickoff weekend, showing what they're capable of,
and there's extra right now leading the way
this team refined,
and they've sharpened their blade here for Boston.
Let's talk about the goats, though.
On the other side, a team with a chip on their shoulder,
lots to prove, and all the firepower to prove it.
This team's scary.
This team's scary.
I'll tell you this, man.
When the shock of the century happened on September 16th,
I think after the World Championship was over,
when Trolley, when it got heard that Trolley was joining Falcons,
then everybody in the world was surprised to hear, OK,
New York knew exactly where he was going to go.
He was going to join Nobo.
But then, after that, they wouldn't
have had the two-time to go in Monkey Moon.
And Twisted Minds, they beat Falcons,
I believe, in the first open of the season.
but they haven't been in the states.
Yeah.
They did most of the next two times
the teams have played in all CS.
But man, I mean, just look at him.
I love this move, though, because Monkey Moon, yes.
He's not the same Monkey Moon necessarily,
but he's a game manager.
He's on the field.
He doesn't take a lot of boost.
There's only, you know, like 3,000 boosts on the field.
And we know TRK and Nobo need all that boost.
So Monkey Moon's like, hey, that's fine.
I'll play midfield.
I'll play with limited boosts.
TRK is number two in boosts per minute
in the entire region,
And the Nobo is number three in speed in the entire region.
And that is because they have Monkey Moon,
who doesn't need resources.
He plays a positional game, plays very smart,
doesn't need the boost on the field,
he lets his teammates get it, and it's worked so well.
Everyone has Twisted Minds as a top five team here.
Now they just gotta show it
when it's international competition.
Yeah, we've been talking to the players too.
I've heard there's something in the air
with Twisted Minds.
A lot of people might have come in here
underestimating them.
But I've heard a couple of players just passing on the hallways.
We've been talking to them.
saying that twists and minds you cannot underestimate them and you know just
because they're coming out here as the number two team doesn't mean it's gonna
be an easy match exactly it doesn't mean it this is the group of that for a
reason gifts this is what all the time every matter by the way you don't know
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there it is but the type of matter to go different again different at the
end things on the plane every game matters in this good in this group
and it's the big one right here very likely we could see the other
group having three two-in-one teams. It's very possible that happened so you
want every single game even if you lose you want every single goal and this is
this is gonna be brutal though because obviously K-Corp with the E-1 seed and
you get this group that come on guys we're gonna have to work right really
hard to even make the weekend but then at the same time I feel like this
conversation is gonna shift completely when we get to the playoffs
they're like oh they came out of the group of that now they're ready and
they've had the best preparation yeah so they go through the ringer to
thrive in the playoffs and it's so cool how that changes based on the
perspective of where you're at Turner Godzilla versus the goats let us know who
you think is gonna win the progressive fan boat hashtag KC for Carmichael
hashtag WIS for twisters mind it's a crazy you gotta appreciate this he
swiss doesn't give you this because groups
you can see first was in my on the day number one I'll be falling asleep on the
first day I mean Thursday news and the groups and groups right here this is
why he wants rock you leave all your new fans at home you've even played
What's going on?
There's something about seeing KC versus Twisted Minds.
They won up the tournament.
That's on the special.
Now to be fair, Twisted Minds have a very low seed,
so we could have seen this in round one.
Either way, with Twisted Minds again,
this is not the same team from last year.
A very low seed here, but again,
roster moves happen, and everyone expects them
to be a top five team here.
The desire for vengeance across the entire
Twisted Minds roster.
You can go to every single player,
They've got a chip on their shoulder reason why they want to win this event the reason they want to win the world championship
On the other side karmic course the only thing they haven't done is win the world championship
And also fun fact NRG
Have that holds the record right for making all the all the grand finals
They could have made in this season right? I mean every single grand final on land every single grand final online
That was nine grand finals because of the addition of the kickoff land that karmic or did win
They could break that record if they were to make grand finals every single of that fun. That's a good fun
They got a long way to go. They got a long way to go
Let's know you things gonna win one but you know who we think is gonna win this first place
I have no idea how these predictions are gonna go turtle. Who you got? I
Mean we I talked to vatira we interviewed him. We got some nice little content there
I just he's just so confident. I can't not get behind vatira
You even saw him in the beginning of the slow mo. He's just having fun. Yeah, he's loose
He's ready, and I think Casey take I love to some minds, but it's Casey you have to pick them until they lose here
So I'm gonna pick a
Man, it's a tight match a man. I think it goes already game number five really
I think I really do think it does but I gotta go a block. I got my pink on right now
I'm not going to listen mind man. Give me the blue wall KC
But here the boys they get a tight winning game up on chance bill
I got Karmic or winning this whole thing and yet it is the first match of
Thursday if there is a match for them to drop it is this one
And I think that vengeance for twisted minds is gonna and motivate them just a little bit harder right now
I like that. I've got twisted minds taking this one down folks were split a little bit on the desk
I was the chat feel about it. We'll find out here
The point is to be a reorganized this direction. There we go now the logos are faced up
How's the cornfield about it's been out in a bad day? It's gonna go
It's gonna sit with me on this one. It's my bad day is turning around right now
You're all gonna have a bad day. That's what I think's gonna happen
We're split on the desk chat is pretty but the most split has been so far though
So Karmicor, their fans waking up, Twisted Minds has earned some respect from the Rockin League fan base here folks.
Let's get into it. Kick off the group of death here on the mainstream.
They got game three going on between Vitality and SSG over here.
We're just getting started.
Twisted Minds on one side.
Vitality on the other.
The Roach, the championship begins right now.
Some teams get to come to the Major and play SSA.
Some teams get to play APAC.
Look at this group, Carmine, Twisted Minds, Vitality, and Space Station Gaming.
Game 1 brought to you by Progressivist, we kick off the grip of death.
The group stage can be grueling and unforgiving.
We gotta put up with shut up, let's see what these teams have in store.
Twisted Mind vs. Carmine Corp, such a matchable out, you've been waiting on this!
Oh, he's on stage! Oh, Professor!
How does this mineral push like we have this thing?
watch out on the other side that's almost really made him pay for it wow very
inauspicious start for twisted minds like 25th on your list 13 oh yeah
there we go you did that good I might be right at the end of this one we'll
see we will see it's not so well select here in midfield and now I have a
short-term memory now for it twisted minds get an opportunity
he's going to convert
Nubba's gonna piece her to crossbar and might have got a little help
I like the old version of Nubba because it really is a power friendship here
playing the double committed that shot
and it warps
hey you know what I respect it
twisted minds on the board first
let's see if they keep this on the block early pressure
the blue wall to have to deal with
now they should have scored first and ultimately they do
So we've off the Azen store now. Going for Otto, going for contact, trying to knock the last defender out of the way.
Still get an opportunity, but that's not coming cleanly off the backboard. Otto will try again.
Why he just, just enter his seat stuff every time he's on the ball for all the attention that Vatira gets.
They said on the desk, that Otto has really shined on the curbing board.
court. Yeah, that is a player. You know, he's talking about a list that probably all might have too low.
He's just so phenomenal when he's on top of the ball. And he's been like that for the course of his career.
Very consistent. Sometimes it feels like he's elevating to a new feat every time we see him on.
And this is a little bit of the same here. That's a great back pass to give the ball to Juicy.
It's 100-court ceiling control of the possession. We haven't seen him get that first one yet.
Here came a sky one up and Popsie will take charge.
You mentioned his entire career talking about Otto.
Go back to that original Team Liquid roster and do kind of a where are they now?
You still got Lars Oscar doing his thing and Otto front and center in Europe.
Here trying to slow down twisted minds who have this early lead.
They have been all over curbing here in this first couple of minutes.
I mean, he's been struggling to get some good shots on him.
Weston is just so impressive.
No, no strange, just going for the ball.
I mean, look how early that challenge is.
Just barely getting off the wall,
and Mabeteer's trying to chase him to get some more juicy.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
He's sniped it.
That is a tough, tough angle.
And ordinary men can't hit it.
But juicy does.
What? Like you said, what an angle.
Big juice there, again the first one.
He shouldn't like that.
Carbicorp could be a force to be reckoned with.
A great start, but TRK, you can't get him to follow.
Kick on start was in his favor, but that final shot couldn't get in.
And he just couldn't get the initial shot on target,
couldn't get there in time for the follow-up.
Yeah, as lethal as TRK has been over the past couple of years,
looking a little more human here today.
Yeah, has been a good start for him.
And the shooting has just been a little off.
Oh my, oh my, almost 8 by words right there, follow up.
Now gonna go in, to our game, we'll keep the possession.
He's been closed, but close is not enough.
Both teams kind of elevating though
the second half of this game.
Compared to here for Monkey Moon to be careful
with the ball as Juicy comes up
and stones him in the corner.
Now Otto popped it up for Batira.
Now here comes Juicy, this shot, left side, no good.
And Monkey Moon will clear away,
Batira's gotta be careful.
He got outside that ball and still pinched it away.
I like that though, because Monkey Moon,
he's applying pressure, but he's not committing.
He wants them to force him to leave possession
so he can get that corner boost.
That being said though,
Twisted Minds don't keep possession here,
so they can't really boost star K-Quark.
These 50s are slowing things down,
and it's allowing everybody else to rotate back to get full.
Gemma up top, here's Vegeta!
Drop it right down to the goal line and K-Quark leads.
So again, you had those 50s from Pateer earlier.
He picks up the post immediately back in the play.
This is Carmen's pressure.
You have to be able to control the ball
and not give them open opportunities like that.
They're so good for shots.
Neither defense is gonna have much time
to rest at all in this series.
And if this stays relatively low scoring,
it will be a testament to how great they are
defensively.
Juicy will pop away.
And after a running underneath, got the boost deal out of the corner.
Mathira beating, still going headhunting.
Mathira knows all he can to keep the play alive in the corner, but now it's no-bow.
Giving possession away back to Mathira, and he couldn't get a piece of him either.
And watch Mathira and Monkey Moon do battle.
Two long-time rivals, you think, when you think of the goats of France now.
Those are the names that come to mind. Mathira, Monkey Moon, Zen.
Dangerous in front of the twisted mines, that quick cleared out.
See, Ato on top of the ball.
At the flip, which I play.
The Dovo's on! Save! What a stop!
Still in play here.
Twisted mines could make something happen in the final 30 seconds,
but they've got to get out of the straggle hole for the 4th albumin.
This is going quickly from side to side.
And the defensive twisted mines really scrambling.
Not a lot of booster work with here for Dovo,
and the boost taken away from him right at midfield.
DRT gonna take a shot, and that one sales high over the bar as well.
Rebound delay from Monkey Moon.
Now Juicy gave it away to Nobo.
Obtra's got to be careful. He's got control enough.
Last opportunity though, belongs to Twisted Minds.
Not gonna help, but this thing goes all the way back,
and Monkey Moon's got to work the length of the field,
and he has to do it with...
Well, there's a whole team there, but he couldn't connect,
and they just let it drop.
And they held all the cards there, Daz, and just folding.
It was really tough with the pressure you can't,
in those situations, I know we saw one earlier today
with rebellion in my VR, they had it up for 40 seconds,
but that just don't show you how impressive that was.
It's really tough, especially when you have a team like
Carmine who is good at killing the ball
and bringing it away from you to go down
the length of the field like that.
That being said for Twisted Mind,
you look back at that game one,
and these are things that can be cleaned up.
The biggest thing though, TRK, five shots, not,
I'm gonna say half of those were clean shots
that he's gonna put in.
He has to be better in those shooting department there,
because these are crucial goals
that Twisted Minds are missing.
And I think like when you look at Karmicord,
they're a good team, but they have,
it's just Twisted Minds to get past them.
It was just a really impressive shot
like the one we saw there from Juicy.
Shots were, the demos of that game were,
I think it's something like 7-2, 7-1 in favor of Permincorp.
We know that K-Corp is going to be a very physical team.
They've literally got the all-time leading demo man
in Ato on LAN leading the pack.
He only had one of those seven, by the way.
It was everybody else that was really getting physical,
and it literally led to the goal by Vatira
when he dropped it down on the goal line.
So it's K-Corp that takes game number one.
Now we go to Forbidden Temple.
No time out here in this shorter series
for Twisted Mind, so they will hold it for game two,
perhaps.
I mean, it was a close start, though.
And I think Twisted Minds know what they need to do, right?
And the opportunities is just to finish it.
Can they finish it?
Yeah, but it's inside the post, inside the crossbar.
Not whatever that start was for Twisted Minds in game one.
It's got to feel like forever ago now, though,
as they try to go to work against Karny.
Monkey Moon sent off to Narnia,
and then Juicy has his shot knocked off the backboard.
Sometimes it looks a little uncoordinated
from switching minds, a little rushed,
seeing a couple of double commits between TLC and Nobo.
But outside of that, they're still doing a good job
of like getting them all away from KCF.
They understand the threat of letting them have time,
but sometimes they kind of double commit
trying to interrupt that.
They get a piece of TRK, monkey moon,
left it for Nobo off the back wall,
and still nothing directly at the car mean net.
Juicy drops this one off and Baty will roam it home!
Baty with his second of the series and this one breaks a tie as well.
Look at Juicy though, has the, just stays on top of a lucky moose trying to get the cut
and they're playing lucky moose cut, but he bumps off the Juicy's car
and that just gives a free shot to Baty.
You can't give him that.
Time and time again he's got to punish you for it.
As great as this team is, they probably had the biggest question mark
of the entire offseason if not mean up, you know, how do they replace somebody with the caliber of drawing?
Answer, Juicy, and he has fit this team like a glove.
Ato to Vachera this time and nothing brewing there, and Juicy's going to have to turn back.
That beat everybody, but it was no one target.
Dangerous play out of Ato, but not punished.
Yeah, I twisted my stone kind of hitting the ball pretty heavily.
Almost a lot of the aggression that they're sending into,
the company's probably been able to handle.
It just comes down to really just give that one play
to execute, get that momentum going.
They haven't had any momentum.
Company's probably pushing through them on the counter
attack.
Look how hot that was.
Just about as defensively holding on for now,
but they've got to get something on here.
The RK dwells through the air.
Noblot was on the backboard.
Monkey Moons taking out as well.
They'll both respawn.
It'll be in time to make the save on Vatira's drive.
Now, Otto, nothing in the tank.
Juicy waiting underneath.
He'll have to go back, though.
As Vatira takes over,
drop one down and take it away by GRK.
This is free ball for Juicy.
He's got the flip.
Oh, and he's making a splash!
Juicy's in the top right corner!
It's like time stands still here.
It's like, okay, everybody stopped it now.
Here we go, towards the net,
right over top of Novo.
And it's Juicy with his second and doubling the lead for K-Corn.
And the more Juicy gets these plays with,
the more possible he gets in this environment.
The more of a threat Karkin Kork is for the entire major.
Pistomized guys slow things down here
have not been on the scoreboard in quite some time.
They're looking to get anything.
It's not like they can't get the ball up and feel it's back.
But they just can't keep it there
and they can't really put a good shot on.
Now they gotta play these counters, which you just don't want to,
That's not the game you want to play here against KC.
Hard off the backboard for twisted minds with the shot.
Left a lot to be desired.
It was just soft and right at the defense.
And not enough physicality in front.
The twisted minds have to go back to the drawing board.
They have to do so with Atto cutting them off in midfield.
There is not much that is headed
towards the Karmine Corp net.
Meanwhile, but Derek got a slip one under.
And Juicy goes at the 50.
Just about neutral.
Monkey Moon for TRK.
And that one was sailing high as well.
I thought I got through it.
It counts as a shot on that, but it really wasn't.
It feels like they rushed the play.
And that's almost rushed him the other way.
That would have been impressive with 1v3,
one side of the field to the other.
Because they had the number advantage earlier.
They didn't slow down the play to get the buff one out
or they rushed it.
He was able to get the save.
And now look, not to your exclusive mind,
the team is stuck on defense.
They're trying to get out now.
They have to do better, keep that ball close on offense,
to really make it the most where they get those numbers of inches.
Well, it was a valuable boost skill out of the corner,
but Ato was still way downfield for that clearance.
And now, but Jira will just take his time
to let Monkey Moon go up to the sky to meet him.
That's what he had to do,
because he didn't have much boost in the tank.
Ato picked a spot, but he's met well out in the truck
by the defensive twisted minds
who are just trying to hang on here in game two
and keep this manageable.
They get anything here in the final seconds.
On the court this feels like they are the bar.
They're setting the tone and it's up to twisted minds to see if they can match that face.
So far it hasn't been the case.
They let one defender go by but nobody there to follow the play up and now Monkey Moon.
Four TRK trying to break this.
Deadlocking yes!
They finally break through.
They avoid the shut up. They got 34 seconds to work with off an excellent pass from Lucky Moon.
The RK great positioning there. I think that's the second shot this series.
Finally gets the back of the net. 34 seconds to go. And they turn this into more.
They got the ball going the right way. Nobo's gonna dive in here with Juicy there to meet him.
One by Nobo, but cleared out by Vitira.
But every clear becomes that much more difficult to task and that was not where it needed to be.
And the demo is certainly not going to help.
No big problem!
This makes it a two-goal game again.
This is so frustrating defensively.
You see the play.
You see the juicers going to go for the ball.
TRK gets that post and then stays on the side while I wait.
I don't know if it's a communications breakdown, but this just feels like something that shouldn't happen.
18 seconds to go.
They completely control of the series there was life for twisted minds and then
take off reminded them no this is the group of them and that is all that is
here for you final countdown now of game two surely a timeout in the wings here
for twisted minds else this series will go as a sweep if they can't turn it
around the blue wall standing tall early yeah they are I mean it's very
very consistent. Defense has been strong. All things have been deadly. But you expect
that from Army Corps at this point. They are team full of talent. And they're showing that
talent here and now. And even though Twisted Minds have talent, they have a veteranism.
They have the young mechanics. They just, the pieces are coming together. I was talking
to one of the coaches and they were talking about scrims. You know, scrims don't really
matter here. But they said Twisted Minds didn't look too good in scrims. They're
play a full dive easy to counter and it feels kind of similar to that here in this series.
On report the counter attack on Twisted Minds has been just so deadly and Twisted Minds has
not been able to stop Harvick up on the push. So they're going to take some extra time to
figure out how to do it as we see Juicy add himself to the highlight reel with the flip
the preset and then Vati calls game here for his 267th land goal only now four
behind a former member of Twisted Minds in Rise. It sits above him at 271. Have
to imagine if this series goes the distance Vati could break that record
now. He will certainly do it at some point in the group stage especially
with the Terries on right now, three goals in this series
through two games in.
Yeah.
I mean, you look at it like Carmen for structure,
it really does come down to kind of like that nick
you know, for the most part, keeping them off the air
for free, you can't give them that free look.
And just really being able to apply pressure for the ball
and control the possession.
It's been tough.
I mean, it hasn't been the worst thing in the world
for twist that mines, they've had opportunities
but those few ones that they've had,
Again, the final shot, at first it was an execution thing.
That was rough.
Now, it feels like it's a downward slope,
and they got to get out of it.
So this is a big turnout.
Very important for that junior to try and write the ship here
for what is still, you know, there's
a lot of pedigree on this twisted mind roster.
Make no mistake about it.
As good as Carmen Corb looked, you've
got a roster with a 1v1 world champion,
A two-time world champion and TRK nearly added his name to the list of world champions as well
He's had some success at international lands in spades
But they're up against the blue wall game three now following the time
It's just such a great setup there on the kickoff Adel goes for a material hard cheat and he played it perfectly
Wow, card record. They said thank you for the charm out. You helped us line up to kick off. Let's go. Let's finish this
That was not what said junior talked about
Here's juicy
But he had yet another stroke of brilliance here, but Sierra
Good catch others just barely put by TRK there now TRK indirect
With monkey moon diving in nobles there too. It is right on the doorstep
And Nobo will get credit for the goal.
Twisted Mind saved that house at the Blue Wall,
and they finally knock it down.
Yeah, they do.
Nobo to monkey mode, and he just
forces his way through the defense here
to get that final touch.
They will not be denied.
It will not be an easy game here.
But we're all tied up in game three.
So Juicy will take his time from the back.
They've given him plenty, and that's
been deadly to a lot of teams in Europe.
They've learned the hard way.
He can create just as well as the others.
Snowball is stopping there by Vatira.
That's a great first shot by Artel.
Got around TRK as well.
Vatira has sent it onward.
And the blue wall putting the pressure back on,
but Artel's got a back out here.
He had nothing in the tank.
They beat Juicy Bridenman!
TRK from the line!
Here's the shots coming through.
Look at, again, that increased pressure.
Great pass from Monty Moon to get it right on the nose.
It's TRK.
And you set it fast, we needed it far down in it.
They're still hitting around the edge of the goal.
They're finding ways to force it home.
TRK now, with Noble running underneath.
Monkey Moon in support as well.
Everybody forward for Twisted Mines.
Blue Wall stops them this time.
What an active first minute here
in a must win game for Twisted Mines.
Tera, lots of space in the midfield, I pass one, double flip, three set to move up field.
Here comes that transition, no bow, get to the ball here, no, Juicy.
He's at the edge of the corner.
C.R.K. is going to lead us for Mucky Moon.
Twisted mines now trying to get out.
Now to be careful here.
This free ball, Atoll just thrown on net.
Twisted mines done a great job of not putting the ball in spots where Krumper could take advantage.
But they have had to make the saves time and time again.
time and time again. You just don't want to be in this position against Casey.
After it did well to get back onto that ball, coming off the ceiling, but didn't quite get the angle he wanted.
But Tira now in field pass, looking for Otto, but instead, the defense there twisted minds up to the task.
Now, Juicy gonna leave it for Otto and he'll score that ticket home tie game.
You can almost see it coming. Well, you see Juicy being in that front man.
If Tira in a couple of demos, it's a 1v1 situation.
Probably of course are gonna bring out that selfless play.
They want to keep do guessing on the defensive end.
There's a good lead and Adolf forces it through.
The RK did get a piece of that.
Just not enough to keep it out.
And how quick will it be on the following kickoff?
Here she's got nobody else forward with him.
Monkey Moon takes charge.
We're all tied up now in game three.
High drama here in what is by far
one of the toughest groups we've seen ever.
but certainly by far the toughest in this event.
Yeah, lots of competition on both sides,
but it has looked a little shaky for twisted minds.
He can't put the pieces together.
The carbon core has taken advantage,
such a physical transition on the ball,
all for it to go back the other way into the blue half.
TRK waiting him in, it gets to him and he stands at home.
Goal gets us a twist to TRK and twisted minds
back in front.
Hard to miss from there.
And as Tierra came diving in, but Tierra, off by just enough,
Tierra K finds the soft spot of the K-Corp defense
and it's Twisted Minds in front now.
Another twist, another turn here in a wild third game.
We're just, oh, whoa, and Twisted Minds will add another.
There it is.
Let's continues.
It's just that speed, that pressure.
Juicy time, I mean, it's a great touch
for Monkey Moony knows Ato's gonna be diving in.
He sets it up completely.
We were worried at the start that the timeout
wouldn't be effective, Staggs,
but this has been great for Twisted Minds.
Well, we were worried the timeout wouldn't be effective
because they got scored, yeah, two seconds in.
They have erased that and then some,
as it has been all Twisted Minds
over the last minute and a half.
Juicy second, nope, nothing there.
Karmicorp will not take this quietly.
There's plenty of time in game here.
We could end up seeing a very close game three.
Karmicorp have a chance to end the series right now.
I'm sure they'll want to take that shot.
And you can never just concede a game and run it off.
Oh, what is that?
Oh, what is that?
Moon from the heavens snicks it right under the bar.
Respect your elders.
Lucky Moon reminded everyone with that shot there
Right under the bar, 5-2, minute 46 left,
and Twisted Minds are gonna keep running up that score line.
Yeah, there are three RLCS World Championships on one side,
and Monkey Moon just reminded the other side
why there are zero on the other.
No more shots gonna ricochet high,
and but Chira, trying to outrun the defense,
has done so, kick out to,
I'll tell him off the corner,
and he'll follow up pinballs around and out.
No pressure, what's the mindset, can't let go just yet.
Those are comfortable lead.
AC still gonna keep knocking.
All of a Tierra.
Oh, don't block so quick.
But that 50, doesn't go the way he wants it to,
TRK needs to help.
He'll pump there for Monkey Moon to eliminate pressure.
Now TRK on top of the ball.
Pass, get pass, Ato low 50.
Monkey Moon no boost though, so Juicy crashes it.
And now it's getting super physical.
TRK has to take it back,
try to work around, pardon me,
Quirk's defense because the second and third man
They're getting caught by Atom.
Very important to get everything you can out of a game,
even in a losing effort.
They're still got 50 seconds to turn this around
to Karmingport.
Well, this is looking more and more like a twisted mind
stuff and an extension here of this opening half of Group
C.
Oh, a little hockey there.
Mathura.
Little ball.
Juicy Mr. Bade.
So I was going to try to MPL pass it, Atoe.
Couldn't make contact, but it almost
worked in the favor there, the Carmen Corp.
Unless they can get something right here, right now.
Juicy to Atoe, went for the fake, didn't work out.
Ball's going to go the other way, and twisted minds.
Not going to go out in a sweep.
They stay alive here in the series.
Keep fighting with their best comeback.
Yeah, oh, the board's on that ball.
It'll be a two goal difference.
Big, big goal here to increase the lead for Peele.
At least that's what you do.
And the counter keeps going up as well for Vati.
His fifth goal of the series puts him at 269.
Ryze sits only two above him now.
And it looks like this series, Willick said,
oh, Juicy got bumped.
He was trying to cheat up.
And if he got a clean drive off there,
that would have made this very interesting
coming down the final few seconds.
But twisted minds do hang on.
and win a shootout in game three.
Got big, big performance, especially with the TRK.
Had a lot, had a pretty good ball participation involved
in three of the five goals there.
And then again, she just stopped defensively.
But everybody was, was in my,
it's kind of stepping up after that timeout.
They needed to damage down, point it is.
But can they, can that be consistent?
Is it enough to turn the series around in force five?
Armored football was knocking on the door
towards the end of it.
And you'll wonder,
Going into this next game, what happened?
And I wonder if farming, if you would
believe them to use the timeout here,
I understand you're still up 2-1 in this series.
But in this group, every game, every goal matters.
You almost take it here because you
want to try and stop the momentum as quickly as you can,
not let this get to game five.
But it does not sound as though.
Any timeout is forthcoming as we look back
on what was a wild third game that
goes the way of Twisted Minds.
So they stay alive here, 5-3 in game three.
And they also cut into that goal differential
here in the series as well.
They concede games by one and two goals each,
when one by two goals on their own right.
And it is definitely game on here in Boston.
Yeah, but you talk about the timeouts,
but you look at the players and their careers,
even the coach with extra.
There's a lot of history and a lot of knowledge.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, exactly.
But these guys all know what they need to do.
And again, if there's any team that you would expect to just
kind of be ready to go and make those quick adjustments,
it would be Carmencorp.
Unless something was astronomically incorrect,
I wouldn't see them taking the time out here maybe
to kind of change some momentum a little bit.
But this is a very confident team.
They know what they can do.
So they're going to try to turn things around.
And imagine being the guy that follows the guy, right, you know, leading this
car mean roster extra stepped in brilliantly.
Remember when it was a fairy peak that stepped in after Farrah left vitality
to go to Karmine Corp and and all the expectations that that puts on it.
And that is that wears on somebody, you know, having all of those expectations
like you cannot miss a step, especially with as passionate a fan base
as the ones that Vitality and Carmine have.
Right, we're knowing that.
But then also just knowing what you can do
as individual players.
These guys, major winners,
all of the Carmine Corp in their own right.
Wow, yeah, even, I'm not sure.
Just looking at that and seeing what they all can do,
it's just, okay, obviously our goal
is that world championship trophy.
We gotta be informed.
They've been at the top so many times.
They're so good at drowning out the noise
and playing it to their own system.
This is just about executing for them at this point.
You know who I think the X factor is
for this K-Corp roster?
And this will be the case, I think,
all throughout the year, is Juicy.
You go back to a couple of years ago,
two and a half years ago when we were here,
in this very same building,
and there was a lot of criticism of Juicy at the time
because he was there.
It was a question of like,
is he ready for this moment?
Is he ready? Is he the guy?
At the time, I think it would be fair to say he wasn't.
Now, he's had several years of experience
under his belt now,
and he looks like an absolute monster.
And that's alongside Vittira and Ato.
He has been a perfect fit for a carving court
and could be the catalyst,
could be the missing ingredient they've needed
to finally get them over the hump and have them standing on that stage lifting the trophy when all is said and done at the end of the year.
The competition is so tight here at the Boston Major. I mean, we talked about the group of death, but I mean, there's real competition outside of just this group.
Every other group with tights of their own right.
And of course, you want to get that win trying to seal yourself as far in the bracket as possible, winning the group, getting to that upper playoff bracket match,
and then winning that to put you in the top four spot,
but you still got to execute and, I mean,
they'll be battle tested and ready
by the time they get out of this group, that's for sure.
Just imagine when you look at group C again,
Carming Corp, Team Vitality, Twisted Minds
and Space Station Gaming, and I know you can look at that
and go, okay, one of these teams is not like the others,
but you're gonna have a team
that has a legitimate shot at winning this whole event
that does not survive the group.
We are back and ready to go underway on Utopia for game four.
Birmingham Corp still has a shot to close it out,
but twisted minds hold all the momentum.
A little bit of an extended break between the games.
We'll see what teams we're able to talk over here.
We'll see Carmi Corp, though, getting ready
to strike early.
Here's Atto.
How's Cucy mid-feet?
That one goes to TRK,
This is back to the field already, early possession.
Blue wall, now double downfield.
Ascii, OK, T-R-K, trying to put the shot on, and Atoe!
What a save there at the goal line.
So you've got your eyes locked on the one on the ball,
and you still have to account for the one coming up.
Atoe is up to the task.
Now Magiro, getting bumped away from the plate.
There goes Atoe!
Atoe, pitches with Fanzi!
I mean, look how close that is.
You're absolutely right.
Use 5-key to get a little power right off the redirect.
A car we couldn't get one, but it started the last game
off that way.
They have to hold on, twisted minds.
That's a close opportunity.
They're going to continue to push.
And it doesn't matter how you score them.
He got credit for it.
One step closer to rise.
LaTera for Juicy.
Popped up.
Atos coming on.
Hits shot.
Locked away by Monkey Moon.
The three by Monkey Moon, everybody in net for twist and binds.
Now trying to break out.
Still though, it's the size of miscommunication here.
We'll see, Monkey Moon gets bumped by Juicy, TRK,
good knee to the ball, good ski, his axle is right there.
They're trying to get out, but it's cut.
This is what I mean when I say that.
Control of the midfield.
You can't give anybody space for a solo.
So a lot of these 50s, very important to try to set up some field position.
It's a great win by Juicy, but then Nobo and Mucky Moon
combined to boom this ball out of Farmsway.
Paul's going to have some density by the time
this game's over where there's a immense amount of power
with every challenge.
Ato has to settle for boost.
Didn't find much down there.
But Tira will take over.
He's got help coming, but the ball goes away.
Again, the defense have twisted
mind making sure to cut off the center of their defensive zone here you see
wanted to make a play down fear this did not the boost now you got to start
watching out for the clears much of us gonna take a mid here maybe useful
later he's staying close into the play close enough to where even though the
fifties lost you still kind of keep this ball up to you okay now but here
what a free jump body didn't get a reef behind it
Karmic will kind of die here.
Nobo gets a good touch, but Ato with a great read
and that clearance all the way back down field,
forcing Twisted Minds back.
It's been tough for them to set things up
and now they're under pressure.
Just case you're looking for the counter,
Ato with the shot, locked out.
Nobo pinched it away, not nearly as hard
as he would have liked it.
It's gone right back towards the Twisted Mind net.
But Kieran and I, by Nobo,
And Monkey Moon with absolutely nothing in the tag.
That's been a theme for Twisted Minds.
Even when they were pulling away in that last game,
they were doing so without a lot of boost.
Juicy now, whirling through the air,
trying to get this central.
And everybody's just packed in front of the net for TL.
Come on, ball on top of the ball.
It's that one, a TRK, TRK, with a laser downfield.
But that's all goal line, stop there.
Now coming for him, trying to see if they can find a hole
the rotation, Vati is looking for a bump on monkey move, but he got to the ball here.
No-Bong, the great touch there initially, and Vatira trying to knock it out,
very fast at TRK, TRK to monkey move, monkey move, backgammon, no-Bong.
Shot, tap, boom, tap, boom, here!
As great as former as he's been in his career, equally good defensively.
Monkey move, this guy didn't miss halfway through the lead,
and then Vati shot the door again, right on the doorstep.
Back to back, stop there, by Fertile, oh there's the fake, and Fertile cuts it out again before it's too dangerous.
He's in their comms.
Another shot, this will be just wide from Novo, no follow up.
And Geremy Gorkin finally breathes easy, they cleared the zone, look out if that's a good way.
The cut from Monkey Moon, Attil trying to keep the pressure up.
And guys start looking at the clock here as we get that final minute.
minute post-opportunities which listed mines and they haven't been able to find
the goal. They really want to push Karmic up to the break but that scoreline
still says 1-0. Here's an infield pass. Back to Novo. Top corner. No, it's not gonna be in.
They try to mess up the frontier but he's gonna stay on top of the ball and clear it again.
What a thought. The way this is evolved, it would be much better and instead
Birmingham court runs forward. Everybody up. Nobody else in front as
as Monkey Moon got chased out of the way,
and Jushi might have put this series away.
And Vaterra, you see a roar.
He forces the clearance there,
getting the defenders out of the way,
and leaving Jushi with a nice shot.
That could be the one that doesn't hear in this series.
What a play by Ato.
It's just been lethal in this series as well.
Oh, that's gonna go through for TRK!
Monkeying on the setup, and it looked like it might have fallen off for a moment.
But TRK puts a laser past Batira.
That was a much needed shot.
Twenty-two seconds to go.
It does come down to this kickoff.
It needs to have that field possession early.
We will have it.
It goes right to TRK.
He was there so early.
Every single one of us and slips through it after the try of the game.
Here's a magician to have to watch him
because he has a pair full of tricks
right under five feet, and it's anybody's game.
TRK, tie game.
Twisted Mines will not go away.
And they've got this ball going the right way.
Juicy does all they can to avoid the God-coming surge.
Final countdown, over five, they gotta guarantee.
That's Bust Away.
Monkey Moons got fucked out.
Alvatira.
Monkey Moons gonna go after him.
Hot Tull for the win and GRK will guide it down gently.
We go to overtime.
They got to kick off last time.
Can they do it again?
Watch Carmencourt.
This ball goes to Batira.
He's going up the ceiling here.
He's gonna use a lot of moves.
Look at the heavy touch.
It's away from him.
Here comes Monkey Moons.
Juicy, not a lot of moves.
We're in a midfield.
But Juicy, even with low moves, great cut.
And a great clearance for Kami Korp to bring his ball back downfield.
Oh, my God!
That was touching!
Good touch from Monty Moon.
He's starting to warm up here.
Adam's just been left by Novo and TRK will clear it away.
Boy, Trit's fine, Zed looked into the water for a little while.
And then all of a sudden, they just turned this game onto chance
while they turned the entire group with it.
This ball dropped down, but Upto will have to chase it down to the side.
He's got Monty Moon up on the ceiling to meet him.
High bounce for Matira off the backboard slicked away.
I like the LTRK, didn't use a lot of boost to go up.
This time he's off the plate,
a lucky move must get a good touch here.
This is awkward, T.R.K diving for it, heavy touch.
Back to Matira, but a clear downfield,
T.R.K's up, leaves it though,
and Atto will try to go up the ladder.
This is dangerous if he can get it through.
He can!
Back to low, but he can't put it on target.
Ah, and narrowly too slow.
It's only juicy at the back,
After scrambling to get there, it is off the bat for DELLIN' OOOOOOOH!
He are dead!
Dead eyes!
He's all right, dude!
How do you get poked down to blow my death?
Are you kidding me, Seth?
This is unbelievable!
This is a group attack!
It can't be killed!
Oh my god!
That is absolutely insane.
Twisted Minds was dead.
They were completely, utterly dead.
And then TRK said, not on my watch.
I mean, you got TRK, you got a multi-moon out of there, you know, like...
It is so late. Look at when these goals are scored here. Look at the clock.
Multi-moon put that on with a minute 30. You thought they couldn't do it.
We're talking less than a minute in the game.
the final minute and in 22 seconds
GRK enters God mode. He's called. That man is called. Unbelievable. I didn't see the bumper in this lab though, okay?
He got fucked and got back to the...
What do you call him, Stacks?
He called the three dangerous letters to Rocket League.
And he's showing you why right there.
No time out for Karmicorp.
We're going right in to game five.
Uh, you saw how the timeout worked for Twitsuban.
They didn't win that game after conceding the goal two seconds in.
Here we go, Champions field.
No timeout needed.
Well, that's yet to be seen.
Juicy.
The powers went away, not so so way downfield,
so Vachi's all alone.
You know, just get that up to the side.
But how does Garmin Corp recover after having victory
stolen away from them?
Almost single-handedly by GRK.
And again, that late comeback.
Now, Garmin Corp on the verge of a reverse sweep.
We thought the series was in the back for them,
but that goes to show you can't
count on customize just yet.
Now, Garmin Corp really have to stop the momentum.
I mean, they could have put a time out.
They said they didn't need one.
But Tiro's just a gas field.
Followed it up, but it splashed out of my noble.
Actually, I got there, and Tiro will park the bus,
just trying to pop one up.
He can play a lot, but Noble will
bring it all the way to the back wall,
and of course, Tiro to burn a lot of food
if he wants to get into the play.
He will go for it from there, but boy,
he's forgiven an effort.
And Tiro cleans it up.
Tiro cleans it up.
But he will look really awkward here, though.
But Tiro, what a great follow-up on the touch.
Juicy just had it red, right off the bunch of those cars,
frustrating, but they start off game five behind.
The Carmen scores first again.
Well, they get another.
They will!
The Cira!
Off the kickoff, ties rise.
With the all-time record, 271 goals for the career
and counting.
Atoh with a beautiful bump there on Monkey Moon as well.
He was the only one who could stop that follow-up shot.
Kickoff's not going to favor twisted minds.
We've seen them though going to run here this series.
They may need to do it again.
Hopped, elbow was just bringing it over to the side,
trying to get the K-Course event
to burn a lot of boost for Tira.
Got left way downfield.
Nothing in the tank.
That passed down to GRK.
Why not beat the hot end?
Doesn't work this time.
And this goes back to the other one, and Batira will score his eighth of the series,
and they call him Bahti Goat for a reason.
Nobody's done it more times than Batira.
Yeah, you see the idea there was to be a pass to Monkey Moon.
Either the pass was off Monkey Moon was off, somebody was off there,
and unfortunately it leads to an open look.
Batira's gonna sink that every single time.
Now, again, this game is starting out similar to the others, with Karmykorp in a very dominant position early.
Here they have, yes, another life to live here.
Here, they can't bring this central.
Look at what Zadapuzz living off pads.
He watches this go over his head. Juicy.
And it's the gravel bullpen from this way down the field.
Everything's coming up for Karmykorp right now.
Rejira, looking for somebody to bump, there was nobody there.
As Twisted Minds, they're playing well out from their own net
and they kind of have to because they feel like they need to chase this now
with just under three minutes down three.
Yeah, they've got to make something happen.
They put themselves in a terrible position for the rest of this game five.
So even with so much time to go, getting three here on KC
is such a monumental task.
They know that they have a strong lead.
They know they have the pressure.
pressure and hit the team that can run down the clock.
Although it does well to stay on to this, FIFA's here up, DRK running forward to steal
the booster trying to start our tourney, but that goes nowhere near the net and
that should just about end the attack. Oh, that's a huge missed opportunity.
Oh good touch hit, Ado, sending it off to the side again, another great touch.
Back to Ado, and Ado's going to talk about...
Oh, I'm going to the field for the other!
Oh, if I had to just call it here, that's Ado!
Wow, why does this for Juicy 2 to set him up?
What a touch!
By Ado to set that up-down field as well.
That is insane!
Juicy 9's sold out, and they got burned.
They gotta get something here quick stacks. That's the only option at this stage at this
moment. Otherwise, game five is going to be all Karmic work. I mean, they did it all with
Oh, it's seconds left, last time, but Tierra just keeps pounding.
They're not letting up.
Not at all.
Great read from Baty.
Cat will go straight in, five to zero.
Mile by the end.
They're showing some fight, but I mean,
Cormie Cork, they're one of the best teams in the world
for a reason.
One of the best teams in the world,
going against one of the best teams in the world.
They're doing that.
The TRK will score was on minute 38.
And it only needed 22 seconds last time
for TRK to completely, oh, that's history.
That double from Buckingham was great.
TRK had a perfect position.
But you're right.
It's time for the part.
Think so?
There's no way.
I said that last game.
You're right.
It was impossible about six, seven minutes ago.
Double.
Tough angle.
And Juicy will have that one through the corner.
There's nobody for Juicy Mines.
Munchie Moon is all the way back.
This will fall in over though.
DRK is all the way back and he's going to have to stay there
because Juicy is trying to clip on him and he just missed.
There we go.
Munchie Moon.
This is Munchie.
DRK can get past Juicy.
No, they are keeping Twisted Mines in their own egg.
Now low on boost.
And now approaching the final minute.
Twisted Mines will need four goals.
They want to turn this game around.
I have to pressure here, but you see great first touch.
I had to aloof the 50, so lots of tries to pick it up.
Lots of ways that over TRK.
They kill a lot more time off the block here, Stacks.
They can fix it all of us in knowing that
Space Station was not able to change.
A game off of vitality.
Try hard as they did throughout that series,
but twisted mind will be still looking up
At the blue wall, on this final 30 seconds expires,
that could be the exclamation point, but GRK will save it away,
and the only question now is going to be the margin of victory,
and how much will that matter as we carry on?
It will only be a game differential of one, either way,
as Novo will score here with 10 seconds left,
and at least a small moral victory at the end.
Talked about the rest of the group here and I would say, despite this score line, put
on notice of what twisted minds can do and how close this group could potentially be
towards the end.
Kiddball play here, the final seconds.
It's okay, if you pass and a good one, it's really not right.
You're probably not today, isn't what we've been saying.
First of all, don't shout it out, but as much as you can out of this, you never know.
You never know when it will come back to fight you or how much you'll need it in the end.
Final few seconds here, Juicy will kill this.
So, Carmin Corp, will they get one for the run?
They did, Juicy!
Stinks one off the ceiling, and it may look innocuous now.
The Charming Corps will take game five.
They survived an absolutely heroic effort out of TRK
and twisted minds.
I mean, great performance from Harvard
for the stop the reverse.
We didn't get a time out either.
We had a lot of trust, a lot of faith in this squad.
You can see what they did.
You can see what everyone brings to the table.
And again, Group C still on notice.
We saw incredible peaks out of twisted minds.
just not enough to get the job done here against Karmine Corp.
They'll be behind Vitality with Karmine Corp in game differential,
ending goal differential for all that that is worth.
But they do take the final act here on Champions Field.
Karmine Corp comes up when they need it most.
Again, what can you say about twisted minds
and their refusal to go away, they did not go quietly.
Even at the end, you kind of had that little inch of doubt
in your mind like, not again, right?
Think about SSG and Vitale that gets the eyes
of these teams, but it's gonna, I mean,
looking at this, better be ready.
Have your game face forward.
This group will be one to watch.
Now, we'll send it over to Lee standing by.
While they got the victory, it looked like it was a little bit harder than you may have thought.
They came back in the middle there.
Can you talk to me about what happened in the middle of that series?
What went on to cause it to go to a game five?
I mean, I think we played really well at the beginning of the series.
The game 3 played really well and we lost it, but we should have won 3-1 like we are 2-1
and we just called like gold 1 and 2 and they scrimed overtime.
But yes, we knew it's going to be a hard match because of course the 10-9s and they went
the regional against Falcons.
Falcons is probably the best team in the world with us.
So yeah, we knew it's going to be a hard match especially with the group and Vestafive.
So yeah, I mean we are happy with the win right now.
Yeah, well I got to talk about the group because obviously you guys got a very
hard group.
There's two of them that were very difficult and for you guys though going in instead of it being a Swiss round
Where you don't know maybe the next round of opponents did you like at least knowing who you were gonna face and could you prepare for those matches?
I mean yes and no because like I would have liked the groups if we had three wins, you know
But I mean facing like just an mines SSG and they say it's the best of five. It's like so hard. Yeah
And I mean I don't really think it's the best format ever
So I would prefer to have this and don't know who's gonna be the next opponent, you know
But regardless you still have to adapt so for you guys did you go in to say okay?
This team plays this way let's play let's have this strategy against them
Or is it that mentality of play our game no matter what even though you knew who you're playing?
I mean we didn't screen them for like three weeks. I think maybe not three weeks
So we did not know they were playing but yeah
We just trust the playstyle because we're winning against sites right almost every team in scrims and we're like
I mean we are better if we play the playstyle we're home to play like we gonna win a trolley
Now I guess just looking at the overall atmosphere for you guys for K-Corp for the team for the squad a lot of people
You know we're coming in with smiles at the beginning, but day one they get a little more serious
How's it been for you guys energy wise? Have you been taking it serious or has it been a little let's have fun?
I mean we take it seriously. I mean we want to win the major
Yeah, yeah, we entered the same like second one. We are full coming like full focus
We don't want to look like any game because like I said like the format is really like
Like, you can get like, effects really really fast, so we just want to win like every game
that we can win, and yeah, we are so focused.
You just got one win, so that's a good start to everything here, hopefully that keeps up
going forward.
K-Corp taking a dump like we thought they would, but it wasn't easy, and more Rocket
League is coming your way.
You know what's going to be easy?
Stay in tune, watching with us.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I'm just trying to figure out the right caption to post about these.
Maybe something like, I have protection, just need a lifeguard.
What about that emoji with a shocked face?
Or maybe flooded with emotion.
That's too much. Try, uh, Tuesdays are crazy.
You know, technically, you don't have to post everything that happens online.
I don't even believe you.
Life is meaningless with that affirmation. Am I right?
I'm going to go to bed now.
Book your trip at meet Boston
.com. Is going on fellas. We
are here live from Boston. There's
me. Chief beef. I'm here with
the nasty. I'm here with coconut.
The vibes are here the crowd isn't even here yet, but like the energy in here. We are the crowd
We are the crowd. I don't know if you guys can hear us the casters are right across from us
So whenever anything crazy is happening, we're trying to give them the crowd feel to give them the energy
You know, they'll see react and dad's is bouncing up and down
Up and yes twisted mind series, I think he did like three good luck hops before the other time started
He's having fun. Well so far
are strongest teams. Who are we thinking?
Falcons looked really good. I think K-Court, they looked great. I am a little surprised
they went to game five with how they started, but I wasn't mad about it. The overtime was
spectacular. And, Beef, I do have to ask you, how are we feeling about SSG?
They can bounce back, man. It's tough because with group stage, it's like you're only playing
against three other teams. So if you lose one of them, you kind of have to win the
other two. If you want to make out a group, it's the worst group.
I mean it's the best group as well, but I mean they can bounce back they had if it won that game to I feel like
Yeah, can change but once you just go to nothing down the best of five. It's like yeah, especially against a team like that
Yeah, yeah, you're not doing that design even with the timeouts now, you know you go down, too
I mean that's why we saw earlier. We saw power call the timeout after losing game one. I guess NRG
It's a power move man
It's kind of, I know, it's kind of so old, man.
But I mean, that's why you saw them call the timeout so early,
where if in the best of seven,
you call the timeout after game one.
What are you doing?
Yeah, what's happening?
So it's really, it changes a lot,
but a lot kind of stays the same, I feel like.
For sure.
And we can ask the chat,
how you guys feel about this group stage so far.
A little bit different of a format.
I'm a fan.
Yeah.
I mean, it's intense.
It's nice to know the guaranteed matchups
that are gonna happen, right?
With Swiss, you can obviously have,
I guess more what's the word like like fair matchups that are groups of teams based on whoever bright whatever but
With these groups you actually know, okay
This team is gonna play at this time and there's gonna be this guarantee matchup like every team and every group is gonna play each other
So it's it's cool. I like it personally. I think it's a lot easier to follow as well
Yeah, so stage can get a little bit confusing although it does have you know, it's nice to use. I'm not
The biggest hater of this new format. I like it
I do things that like two teams in two teams out, but every single series matters a lot
It's so like a lot you cannot be you can't sleep at any point
You got to be locked in at every single stage of every series. So I like that. Yeah, it's exciting
If you want to win the major you got to win games. That is true. You know that's a recurring thing
What would have thought I gotta go tell them this. I don't know if they know or not. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's
Major so far. Well, that's like in Boston
I think that the crowd is going to be one of the better crowds in a while. I'm excited North American crowds have a record and also amazing. They're the best. We haven't had a North American crowd since Raleigh, right? Because Copenhagen, I mean, obviously, to Europe, right? But there's no crowd in Copenhagen. Leone was worlds. Leone was amazing. But it's just a little bit of a
We haven't had a North American crowd since Raleigh, right?
Because Copenhagen, I mean, obviously, it's in Europe, right?
But there's no crowd in Copenhagen.
Leone was worlds.
Leone was amazing.
But it's been since that Leone event,
since we've even had an event with a crowd here.
Dude, I mean, isn't Paris going to be double Leone's attendance?
Paris is going to be, sir.
Oh, my god.
Hey, you make friends with the sale.
You guys know how to party.
Tickets are for sale.
Yeah.
Go buy those.
If you can attend, of course.
I think aren't people getting a title for the Boston Major?
Yeah, I saw that.
I heard that, right?
If you are going in person to Boston, they're giving me, like, a Boston Major attendee Rocket
League down.
I remember saying that.
I will be rocking that if they give it to us.
I mean, who knows.
I was saying, we might be here.
Right?
This is cool titles, too.
This is all a watch party.
We don't have official co-streamer.
It would be so cool.
It'd be wicked.
I'd love that.
It'd be wicked.
We're not for too much.
Next up, we've got NRG versus NIT.
That's going to be good.
That's going to be a good showdown.
I like that.
I mean, NRG started off pretty good today.
Not too shabby.
How y'all feeling about NIP at the moment?
Because I think that a really strong start to the season.
And they're still strong.
They're still good.
But how are we feeling about that series?
I mean, it's up in the air.
Both of the teams are wanting to know right now, right?
So whoever wins that, most likely
is coming out top of the group.
Kind of guaranteed.
You're either facing power or five fears.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And you would have chill out on power.
Chill out.
You would have sued.
Come on.
Right?
You would have sued, though.
So this is a big match.
I mean, it gives you the number one CD group, which in theory gives you an easier matchup in the playoffs, but also like in theory
Like let's say you play the second C from group C. Yeah, right now, which is vitality Carmen Corpista mine space station
I mean any of those are gonna be a team of matchup. Yeah, no, that's not easy
So wait best group group C are gabley. Who's the second best group?
You gotta watch out. So we've got group A with NIP, NRG, Power, Five Fears, group B with Falcons, GK, Virtus Pro, Furia, and group D with Gentleman Shopify MIBRTSM.
I think I'd go group B. I think group B is kind of a number two right there. Also, great news for you redacted fans. Got picked up by Virtus Pro.
I mean, I'm not sure what
they're doing. I mean, they're
probably going to be on the
ground for a while. I mean,
they're going to be out first
probably boys. Another huge
eSports or that enters the scene.
That's great for the health of
the eSport. You know, we've
been wondering when more tier
one or two are going to come
into the scene. First
Bros been around for ever. Yeah.
And I mean, those are
that you guys deserve as well.
They've been looking good for
so good. You know, actually
like find the team is so
sweet. Yeah. And so far, I
mean, not not the best
start to their, um, their
Boston endeavors, but I
still think they got. I
I think they take at least one more series, you know,
they're getting warmed up.
There's a world we see Falcons one, Virtus.Pro two.
For sure.
I mean, we saw, I mean, Virtus.Pro losing to Falcons,
I feel like that just says a lot more
that Falcons are really good.
We were talking with Elej, we had an interview with him
here and he was saying,
out of the team's screaming, right?
Falcons are looking really, really good.
The fact that Virtus.Pro took the game off of them
and we're somewhat close in the other ones, right?
They're competitive for sure.
I mean, anybody can win any game, any series,
That's the whole point of the Boston.
These are the best teams in the world, going head to head.
And the format's fun.
I'm excited for the playoffs.
I'm excited for the LAN.
I think Boston's a great place.
The arena is awesome, and the people
are going to be even better.
So if you guys are coming, hopefully we see you.
This is going to be a good one.
This is going to be a LAN that I definitely will remember.
I'm already having fun.
Day one has been amazing so far.
Yeah.
Like he's saying, the energy is here,
and the crowd isn't even here yet.
Speaking of the NRG being here,
What are our predictions for the next series?
I'm going to go NRG and Game 5.
It's going to be a thriller of a Game 5 OT.
I like that.
I think Game 5 as well.
I'm going Game 5.
I think NRG come out strong, and then it's up back and forth
until Game 5.
I'm going to go to the review.
Quick for you.
Yeah?
Easy for NRG.
Got them.
Got them.
NRG.
Got them.
All right.
They're ready.
They want to go on next.
I think when it comes down to it,
we've seen the North American dominance, obviously,
Just throughout the ages.
Start to finish.
Start to finish.
It's always been the best.
Yeah, I think, yeah, without question.
Yeah.
And I think that energy are gonna prove
why they just won the world championship.
And although they had a little bit of a hiccup
at the start of the season, they're back.
They love a short-term memory.
You know?
I forget.
They are the world champions.
The defending, the reigning.
Yes, sir.
I was just putting some respect on their name, you know?
I guess I'll have to do it here.
The
group of death delivers immediately with champions field going to game five there you didn't
think you'd make it without a series starting karmic or looked at it had it on lock with
TRK has other ideas a hat trick in game four don't need to talk about it being six to
three in game five but my goodness what a series it was a good one but this is
I was like, Oh, this is why
we called it the group of death.
These teams as you can see just
the level of play on the field
wasn't. Oh yeah. I was standing
in there with everybody and at
first we were like, okay, this
is kind of a sweet a little bit.
Right? And then then you see the
comeback start. Well my goodness.
We go. There's 30 seconds.
There's no way it's happening
before and then it was a big big
OT you look around and
everybody screaming their head
off and. Oh, that was really,
match their faith. I believe you could pick almost anyone on the field. I mean you could pick anybody
they all put balled out TRK devil he did I think average 484 points per game 1.4 goals we
can hat-trick in game number three with a double tap after he got bumped up and this guy came back
down top right corner about the average 500 point per game with 1.8 goals per game. I mean these
guys these are six of the best players in the world for a reason the class the display they
put on and this is only day number one this is what it takes if you want me to become a major
champion in the year 2026 and they're off on both them with their limited
opportunities to shoot 42% for Vati 41% for TRK so that there was some good
difference in the field it was just the quality shots was absurd from those two
to carry their teams to that game five man this is also when everything kind of
started to go to Ryan everybody was like alright this is the potential sweep
right no wrong tight game this shot from TRK was really what snowballed
the reverse sweep of this series and I mean you can just see it was just pure
aggression from case each trying to stop the bleeding but they have to take it
all the way to the absolute barrier. Yeah TRK here's that shot he gets bumped on
the double still it's in any way what a fantastic shot there to win game four to
fours game five man alright all the momentum onto his minds but this is why
K-Corp is the best in the world they find a way back and they find the
And if I was quick they just took over in the first minute again number four
I mean they are in a sport and they get four or five again
They're gonna go with a classic calming court kickoff going after that
They never looked back put twisted minds away on champs field huge win right there
Can you see the group with that wave?
Is looking spicy is spicy out there?
I think with anything has been said already on broadcast
But it's worth mentioning again if you're just now tune in with that win and with the goals
He scored the tier it takes over as the all-time land goal leader at
273 goals, I believe is the number I got told there that number will only increase as it's a medical
I pass his rise who has missed out on the events
I won't be going back and forth here in Boston
I'll just be Carmen Corfu, but you're kind of isolating it there group see action done for now
Let's take a look at the overall groups any big surprises here. Herb's about you thought I was gonna look
No
Everything's been pretty like where I thought I guess if anything were to have surprised me
would have been that Virtus Pro hasn't quite found as much success as I think a
lot of people would have hoped for but they played the Falcons and yeah I was
getting excited like anything it was a little expected so yeah and then in
group A we already got a little bit more done we're gonna see them twice we'll
see energy coming up here but five years 0 and 2 and 0 and 6 is the
important number there that mathematically eliminates them from the
competition there's not one more games played but they cannot advance as
It could be it could be an impressive win if they got that last game will be against NRG tomorrow
So they get the honor of facing off against the Rocket League champions of the world few players in
Existence can say that they've earned an opportunity to do that
So congratulations to five years on being here, but they have been eliminated from playoff contention
Let's continue on here with group a action as we are closing out the day alternate stream
Continues on only one more match for them. They got made in Brazil versus TSM coming up here
They got about two and a half more minutes before they're back from break.
So you can keep it locked right here on the mainstream.
But make sure you got that alternate stream pulled up, twitch.tv slash RLE sports.
Shopify rebellion versus gentlemates will close out the day there.
We'll jump back to group D for that action.
But for now, let's continue on with the last match of group A here for day
number one, ages of pajamas versus NRG.
These are the two strongest teams on paper in this group and the two teams
that are hoping to emerge as representatives.
Yeah, this is going to be really exciting for a multitude of reasons, but as far as NRG is concerned, if you missed their first series of the day, it was against Power, and Power actually was keeping them at the one-goal OT games very consistently.
So I am curious how that's going to kind of unfold here against a team of, I mean, in most people's eyes, like, quote-unquote, respectfully, higher caliber, right?
Sure.
So we're going to see how things change here against a team that's top in the other side.
Yeah, Ninjas and Pajamas are one of those teams.
I think everyone knows, like, at their peak, they can be the very best.
They went to game seven, they had that kickoff land versus K-Corp, and they lost the teams.
They were up 3-1 there, too.
But it shows that they have potential to be one of the very best teams here.
It's just, we haven't really seen that in open two and open three.
They've kind of fallen back down.
We expect some inconsistency, but we need to see them lock in next.
On the other side though, the reigning Rocket League World Champs NRG here had that slow
start we sort of expected from them that we talked about, that they all was on day one
aren't peaking, but they did get the win.
They did win that series and that final game, while there was some back and forth, you know,
one goal overtime games, the final game was a 5-1 in favor of NRG, so they found
the 4 at least at the end of it.
Yeah, and let's not forget, like even like at the World Champs you've last year,
they played Ninjas with Jommas, obviously a different team, they played them in
the first round it went to game 5 over time. That whole world championship would be completely
different like if they didn't win that game but that's what energy does. They battle but
they find a way to be on top. Time in and time to get it.
They sure do. I mean they're comfortable. They know exactly what needs to get done.
They can't afford starting off slowing groups because if they lose this match they kind of
lose control of being in that top side of that. What is that bracket called? I'm going
to call it the upper bracket. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. There's going to have to
go through the lowers potentially because if you're looking at the match along NIP would
be favored against power and that means they would go through your own group.
So there's the big match right here in particular for both of these teams.
They want to control their own destiny and have that extra life.
Yes, and not only that, if energy wins this, we're already talking about playoff implications.
They will clinch number one in their group right now.
They don't even have to play the game tomorrow.
They will be in that upper bracket.
So energy just wants to get the job done on Thursday.
Have a little bit of an easier Friday before the big playoff.
With this window, NIP would secure bracket two, yes or no?
Oh yeah, they'd secure bracket, yeah.
No, because it could be a three-way tie.
It could be power, ninjas, and NRG all at two and one, right?
Oh, you're saying powers could be in IP tomorrow?
Yeah, so maybe if NRG lost to 5...
Yeah, like it's a whole thing.
So nothing's qualified if ninjas wins.
But again, every game matters then in that case, in case of a three-way tie.
But if NRG wins, they've already beat both of the one-on-one teams.
They win that head-to-head.
So then it would be ninjas versus power tomorrow for that final spot.
on the line here for both teams and I'm trying to deny energy that number one spot anytime you get a chance to take on
The reigning oracle league world champs you must bring your best game
Well, no, you think is going to win hashtag energy for energy hashtag and IP for an IP nice and simple and clean on that one
This matchup leave you only got head-to-head like one player on one side versus another player on the other side
Herc is there is there a matchup that your eyes want to
I think for me it'd be a joyous
It's kind of those sleepers all the third man's that either make or break their team a lot of the time. So those would be my two to watch out to see who's potentially holding under pressure today.
I mean, it's crazy thinking about like atomic is like a sleeper's third man, but when you're on a team with Beast Mode and Daniel, it starts to be kind of hard to determine who's the quiet man in the background supporting everybody here.
It's kind of hard to determine that. They draw the dream.
Draw the during so they're very very good. Let us know you think's gonna win what you know we think's gonna win her
Who's your pick? I can't not go against energy. I'm honest after the power game that five one really good at it for me
I'll really quit when I don't have the exact math, but I think if they just sweeps they might clinch right now
So okay based on three-way ties, but we'll talk about that after like if it does happen, but I'm going energy at this point
I feel like energy
The eye test is so brutal for me sometimes with energy
They look fine attached, but they find a way to win.
They always do it.
And I'm going to pick them in.
Backhand to compliment.
He's never to say anything.
I'm just, I'm just, let's go.
Yep, that's my business backhand to compliment.
NRG's going to win them again.
NRG, NRG are the favorites here.
And I sort of feel like, I hear what you're saying, Gibbs.
I feel like they are destroying the concept of the eye test
in live time in front of us.
They're proving it doesn't matter here.
Give me NRG on this one.
They are going to be, it's going to be a clean sweep.
NIP is going to have to do an uphill battle
if they want to get the win here.
Does the coin go with it?
The coin is not. The coin is all for chaos.
It's not a very bad day.
Honestly, if it predicts every match incorrect,
that's just as impressive as predict every match correctly.
It's the same thing.
Cam's running, folks. Let's get into it.
Chad, you guys all got NRG as well.
Clearly, there is a favorite in this match,
but we play the matches to find out
when the underdogs will knock off the Titans, folks.
Let's get into it.
Rain and World Champs. NRG on one side.
NIP on the other.
Let's play some Rockin' League.
Got two Titans from Group A colliding here.
Ninjas and Pyjamas versus NRG.
Internal, you heard it from the desk as well,
that these are the two favorites to top out the group.
But NRG, maybe they have the edge.
That's right. Game 1 presented by Progressive on your screens now.
You know, there's a lot of implications like you're talking about.
The desk was mentioning there could be a three-way tiebreaker.
You know that's an area of sport. He lives for that exactly. He's just scheming and plotting back there
But these players, you know, I'm sure they're aware of some of the outcome and situations
They can find themselves themselves in but at the end of the day, yes, stay present
You lock in because you just want to win this game and control your own death
Let's get into it. Tomic off the back for Daniel across the pitch
And I think this is gonna be a big story energy on the offensive side
We want and I keep looking to break out and talking about big stories
I think the biggest story to start out the year was the fact that NRG the defending champions
Kickoff event they finish outside the top eight some shaky defense from there as well
But the fact that we didn't even see NRG play in Copenhagen a bit of a shocker. Oh
CRR
Welcome on to the pitch young man
And I think this is also going to be a story that we see repeated a lot CRR is
But then we can spark things up here for the offense of NIP that's only with that great pass pitch cross
That's a good way to start and you can see nobody having boost for NRG Daniel turning with no boost
Couldn't get up in the air to challenge it but CRR the one to knock that in and CRR such an interesting player
When you look at what he's done, truly an international mercenary playing in three different regions
CRR's been a good amount of time in North America, very familiar with NRG and how they play.
You got to think about what that experience can add to your resume, but also your confidence
here internationally when you do come to a stage here where you're playing against
other players across the pond all over the world, that you've got that experience
of CRR.
You're used to it.
You're prepared for these matchups.
Get clear out over down to Atomic.
Not going to proceed as well.
I'm not going to proceed as well, able to get a touch, and here's the man we're talking about.
What does he have left with the tank?
Fair dribble all the way to the other side, but I'm not going to find a teammate.
RG, of course, looks like quite a bit of defense here, Ole.
He does fake out that.
I'm comparing back to back 50s.
You can see how much work Ole's doing, but a really nice challenge from Daniel.
And that erased all the progress Ole was even able to make.
I think it's been an interesting day for both sides too.
Got nice warm-ups in for sure.
Against 5-years for NIP and NRG, taking down power.
Close game, maybe a bit unexpected, but still the result was as we had expected.
And right now this is the ultimate test, James.
How can they stand up against the other, like you said, Titan in the group?
that we're seeing right now.
Interest in the Jam is hitting the better of NRG.
NRG has been very hot and cold this season so far.
Very cool to start things out.
And then the hottest performance in Open 2.
NRG dominating, only losing six games
through the six days of competition.
But then Open 3 looked mortal once more.
And so now everybody wondering what,
what kind of tradition NRG is gonna be in here
on international land once more.
OK, only on the defense.
You know, with a little bit of pressure,
it's been a lot of NRG circling this ball
left to right in the corners, trying to create
a few opportunities, and they don't want to stretch the bar.
How did this even slip in, babe?
Wow.
Oli's cheating up on the side of the ball.
Thinking that Jorius was going to do more with that ball.
Heck, he trust in Jorius.
Steep mode as first fan.
I mean, tough to predict, but that was, I think, just the situation where Jory is not able to get a handle on that ball,
and Ole was expecting more.
Well, you don't even blame Ole for thinking that Jory's going to get eight touch, just a 50-50 sometimes a challenge.
You wasn't expecting an immediate shot right at him.
Yeah, exactly.
That was for sure.
That might be something you got to get used to, though, against NRG.
The reigning champs are going to bring the house down to get reigned with a lot of shots,
Maybe we get some more as we're at an all even tied up ball game.
They're atomic, trying to make it so notorious.
Open to make up for that last leg.
Pop up from atomic, Daniel will poke it further, right back to atomic.
He launches it towards the backboard.
CRR tanking post, trying to get that out.
Still, this is awkward.
Atomic, walk down to base.
B smoke was over to you!
And there is the deadly plays that NRG can make on you!
There's the duo, you leave the backboard open, nobody's even there to challenge.
B smoke is pre-jumping, connecting, and you see Sav, you pop it off.
And we've seen that, oh my, for NRG this season, the pre-jump,
and also the fakes that you do not expect.
NRG has so many different approaches offensively.
happened such a big played a huge moment in this game where they got off to a slow start so NRG
I know it's they're late see if in IP has something
Fight back and get back in this one turtle. I'm curious what the play style is going to be now for NRG
I mean it's been a comfortable game where they felt so much possession
They haven't had to shake too much, but maybe they're not comfortable on defense as we do see a double commit
But Daniel's getting mixed up there with Beast Mode,
and the demo's going to certainly add so much more insult
to that injury.
And here comes the NIC.
Can't you hold on and grant our Gs?
Tommy, trying to clear it out.
CRR is there, past to the middle.
Daniel gets a hand up.
It's stuff story as CRR will back-task, but it's not.
More enough, you saw Beast Mode was there to count on it.
That's risky stuff.
Beast Mode can read it well.
And CRR and OLD is still in play.
Look at the mind games, past two potentially.
But Daniel hasn't read the whole time.
Dorious, nice interception.
And they're going to have the roads hit in.
Two players diving for the ball.
That was their chance.
They're not going to find it.
Ball still up.
Maybe CRR can get something, but no.
Of course, SmackDown and the World Champs take game one.
Yeah, I swear.
I don't know if it's, you know,
Gibbs does this all the time or just the matches
that I have.
I think he's making some pretty good predictions.
OK.
He said NRG, just find a way to win.
They find a way.
They find a way, and they did this time.
NIB started out looking pretty good.
NRG's kept back quite a bit.
I mean, like where they go?
There wasn't really a moment in a game where I'm like,
NRG's are kind of on the ropes there.
Maybe they're the first goal.
Or they let in the first goal.
Right, the first goal.
And then you really want to let NRG get back on the tracks
because Jordy is not handling the ball the way that only
expected it.
They got three goals, basically.
Right.
And that's really where the game turned.
And then the crazy great jump from Eastmode.
You know, and that's where the trust from this team is, is, is the market.
Right.
You can really see it throughout all of this, you know, all three players when they're on G2, they're on NRG right now, you know, they stuck for a long time.
Even after coming up short, multiple times in big grand finals, they stuck, they make things happen.
That has, you know, they got a world championship now.
Yeah.
The trust is undeniable.
Yeah.
Players, they've been playing together for so long on NRG, and the trust is there.
That last play you saw B-Sport goes up before, it's not like you've been in the LCK done at home.
He got the fortune teller there and his ear just held him.
And it's time to do right where to put it.
Yep.
And that was the difference.
And NIP, I mean, how do you handle this?
That should be a question.
There was a lot of players I saw on the back door
that were getting bunched up though with their rotations.
You don't fault them for it because you're
under so much pressure.
But maybe game two has a different story in round two.
Very important matchup.
You want to control your destiny.
Don't let anything get to crazy gift predictions.
The one thing I do think we'll need to see more of is
brilliance from Jorias.
Jorias at one play might have been the difference
between NIP winning that game and coming up just short.
And Jorias, you know, you've seen it.
EWC MVP, he could be an impact player,
and now he goes for the shot, but nice save from Atomic.
It's the main impact player for NIP.
He's going to be right now in CRR.
He's got my band there.
It's gonna be the first one.
Oh, it's a banger from their own half, Daniel.
Just a monster there for the past B-Smode.
Jorius, it looked like he was staying on the mid-boost.
And CRR was not rotated back.
There was nobody challenging that shot.
And that is a tough one to give up, Turtle.
It's another freebie.
They're thinking, how does that wear down the mental?
It's one thing to get scored on by a pre-jumping B-Smode,
but to get one up hurts even more.
Can't be doing that against the defending world champions.
CRR denied that shot opportunity.
He's going to go for the corner boost, Darius.
Sting to the backboard.
CRR staying on his ball nicely.
RG deflecting it out, Harnsway.
You know, only trying to get something half of Darius.
Lots of boost in the tank.
Heavy first touch, but it was up to CRR.
CRR, hit the double tap!
Gorgeous double from CRR!
Oh my word, from the heavens, here comes CRR.
He actually got the ceiling!
He's gonna take that from the camera angle,
but he actually is never feeling Pogo.
I gotta be honest, I've never seen anything like it.
Holy CRR.
I've seen people Pogo off the ground,
But the ceiling, the bounce off the ceiling to hit that shot, that was truly creative.
Oh my goodness, CRR.
If that doesn't pump you with adrenaline all those teammates now, the confidence has arrived for NIP.
Crazy shot from CRR.
What a player he is.
In high demand in any region across the world.
And in the toughest region of EU still getting results and making majors and hitting a huge
shot in a critical series.
Pricuous stuff but at the end of the day it's only a tide of game.
We have to do even more against NRG.
We saw a mechanical pop off the Wizard of CRR.
It's got to be something else.
How McLookin person to 50 finds it, sweeps it out to Daniel.
Here comes little dribble super.
Give it go and it feel be slowed up early bounce it down here. Come Daniel on the shot
It looked like only got magnetized for the most here he was scrambling back was trying to get something going
Couldn't get back in time you saw the panic
So deadly from NRG and I saw this during their power matchup as well those those were of course close games
multiple times we're seeing every single player in the rotation James doing
something of value going for a demo we just saw atomic he's off ball but he's
getting above B-Smoad at the Daniel of course doing some work behind the ball
everybody has a purpose a mission there's atomic once more
some stuff off that rotation you'll have to see it that's what was needed to
win worlds last year all the fake atomic rebound should be good B-Smoad
to follow through CRR block.
The two players win at Daniel.
Even easier follow up.
I know it all was set up from this fake there,
from Atomic.
That little head fake gets him some space
and forces a double commit on the rebound.
And then the rebound on the rebound ends up going in.
And NRG are looking comfortable starting to run away
with this series.
And they're not even letting that previous goal of CRR.
I mean, that's probably the least tilted goal.
You know, it's a crazy one.
It's not like you haven't.
Yeah, here you go, buddy.
You earned it, you got the crazy goal, but we're going to take the game win.
At least that's what it looks like till two minutes, a little under to go for NIP.
But can they wake up?
They've reached a weird state of slumber after the pop-off from CRR.
Definitely feels like NIP is a big cold CRR.
Looks like he's beaten up, but only we've seen him get beat a few times.
His last man back to Riaz, missed touch, not able to.
I mean, he did have a nice setup on that CRR double tap play,
did get that good tap.
But I think you also expect more from Jorias.
What do you expect more on the defense?
I mean, we're looking for a consistent 50-50s.
The consistency is the name of the game.
Atomic underneath that air dribble smoothly
into the midfield.
You're just wasting time at this point.
Two goal lead, maybe even a follow-up of the offensive half.
Goal line save for CRR, it's rotating up, it's a midfield boost, but NRG still have possession.
Beast Mode trying to poke this up in the corner, Daniel now moves in, 50, a lot straight back in the time, it gets the touch and the boost.
We'll have Beast Mode on the outlet, but instead goes for a 50 and gets 5 CRR, a lot of pickers all the way back, and this is going to waste a lot of time.
That's a good sign, but I think they're just panicking more and more on the defense.
Hitch together that's gonna go all the way over Daniel. It's hot though
And I mean even if you're prepared for that, that's how solid the third man is back there for energy
That's not an easy read by any means
CRR not giving up just yet 20 seconds left down by two good
Prejurious in the air trying to hear triple that through rebound contested
Still in a dangerous
Double commit from NRG, but they're still managing to waste that time
and somehow even deny the goal.
It feels like they can do no wrong.
Energy is dropping the controller.
You got to reset mentally.
At this point, it has been very, very one-sided, James.
And I don't even see any sweat coming out of the energy half.
It's business.
Yeah.
Another day at the office.
He's waking up.
Can't even be bothered.
Yeah.
You wonder if you're gonna see a timeout here. It seems like the perfect time for a timeout for NIP. Yeah
I mean you got to stop the momentum and it's it's a top break for NIP as well because game one you're they start out scoring
Open it up, and you're thinking okay. It's gonna be a good series. It looks like NIP's and but immediately
They immediately after that first goal it felt like I don't you were back in the driver's seat
Well, I was after that first miss. I mean I I say it's a mistake. It looked like Jorius
gave away that ball in a way that you know regardless of whether it was an
intentional touch from him or not only wasn't expecting it and they gave away
a goal. He cannot be giving away goals. There's a multiple giveaways. We had a
freebie in this one too where the NRG were able to get some type of momentum as
we do get a timeout for NIP understandably as they're gonna some
extra space here to breathe. He's to mention Joris. He actually stopped
driving as the ball is hitting the ground because you need a reset.
Yeah, is that a sign of tilt to you?
No, I actually think that's more...
I mean, it depends on the player, obviously, but from my eyes, I think,
with the way that this series has gone, you need something to completely snap you out of it.
They're quite... It feels like they're asleep to me.
You know what I mean? We're waiting on them to get things moving,
find the form that we know they have, and this has been the story
for NIP throughout the entire split.
I mean they came out with an explosive start and they kick off weekend taking I believe it was case in the game seven
The first open for them went well out of NIP and at multiple top six is like this is a team that's it's very capable
But then they didn't make quarters for the rest of the split
It felt like they they started at the top of the mountain and then it slowly just been which is down the complete opposite of
of NRG, who stumbled, fell short so hard in the first open,
finishing 9-12, only two points, somehow bounce back
to then take the number one seat in North America.
So this NRG team, they find ways to win.
Even in this series, they've looked good.
They've looked very confident.
The pre-jump from Beast Mode, I thought was beautiful.
We haven't even seen, though, the final form from NRG
when you've got Beast Mode as first man,
going for his ceiling double flip.
They've never had anything back to the corner
to change anything.
We've seen some good fakes, though.
You saw the atomic head fake, but NRG's got even more fakes
in the book, or in their back pocket as well.
And you see a kickoff strat come out of the gate for NRG.
So it's clear that they were using that time out
time effectively as well.
But this is a really important game.
I think if you're NIP, even just looking ahead,
power was able to really test NRG.
So with NIP playing like this,
I'm sure power is watching from the sidelines thinking,
hey, we got a shot at this.
Yeah, I think NIP's out.
Yeah, I think you can understand how they can be confident.
At the same time, they're starting to fear NRG even more
through any other team watching this
with how calmly they are taking these wins,
Daniel, passing midfield.
Big question here.
Does NIP give away another opportunity?
Do they leave that shooting lane wide open for NRG
or are they going to make them work for it?
Oh, we'll find out.
Holy, close for a 50.
Beast Mode gets a five. Beast Mode gone for a bump.
He forced CRR off the ball.
It leads to a shot opportunity.
Extra effort from Beast Mode.
And now he launches it in again!
And NRG opened up the score sheet of game three.
It looks like they are cruising to the finish line.
Oh, they're cruising indeed.
And that's an early shot out of Beast Mode.
And it's a great set up that, but it still feels like one
where you have a rotation.
It plays it in that game.
The problem with NIB was that Beast Mode
drew them off that rotation when
He went for that bump attempt and forced CRR off the ball, which gave the space to NRG to work.
So Beast Mode again, causing chaos.
And then the first man back in.
It's one thing to be the first man, but then to rotate back into the striking position.
Still eternal. You think Beast Mode ever left?
Yeah.
He's always prepared.
And that's again our team.
Oh, no!
They're gonna do it! CRR!
Still leading away for the squad.
Seems like he has been the shining light for the team B smoke trying to get back in time but CRR caught up sleeping
That's a situation where he's trying to get back in a striking position B smoke so hungry to get another shot on target
a little bit too far forward
That's an early response. So much needed one out of NIP as they're facing
a fearsome squad that's on match point
He's stabilized, but I think we'll need to see more from Jorias for Oli.
It can't just be CRR making these plays.
B-Smoot with a 15 CRR trying to control it.
Let's Daniel hit it back into him.
There's the downfield.
Nicely done by CRR.
Goes for a pinch as well.
B-Smoot will land on the ceiling.
Backflip passing over to Atomic who launches it towards the backboard.
Oli doesn't clear it out.
It falls to CRR who will just make it downfield.
These are deep rotations out of NIP.
I'm not seeing as much pressure.
CRR has mostly been the number one aggressor out of everybody.
I think he's trying to get away, go for a demo,
put a shot on target like this.
Daniel glides across calmly.
That one's not going to go in, but the pressure is being applied.
They're demoing it.
Or physical plays coming through.
It could be some space open, but of course,
you've got beast mode ready and waiting on the backboard.
Only trying to line up the double.
Looks like you had a good hit, but you didn't have much boost
or anything else. Holy.
We'll wait. There's the shot.
CRR looking for some blocks on Beast Mode.
Lots of pressure for NIP.
This is the best-looking attack that we've seen from them.
They're getting comfortable, too.
They just look this offensive back.
As soon as I say that, here comes Daniel.
Down the other end.
CRR alone on this backboard.
How's he gonna deal?
Man, just actually grab that, dude.
Full boost. Full pressure.
Here he comes.
He's almost 1v3.
This entire squad.
He can get the ball down.
It looks like it's a one-man army.
Gets the touch, gets the corner-boot, gets the clear.
And still is on the ball in the offensive hat.
Daniel have the ball leak through and fakes the shot.
Now both were goal, quick save from Jorias, but there's more of those fakes from NRG.
More fakes.
Eventually more shots, Beast mode likes to be behind himself, but Daniel,
a lot of early testing shots from the midfield. We're seeing especially on that left side.
Beast mode took the shot a couple minutes ago got that first goal comes Daniel doing it once more off the backboard
Waiting hoping for a chance to strike an NIP
They've had a pattern of giving away couple of shooting lanes NRG hungry and waiting on the side
Good boost for am I CRR as well to make sure that energy wouldn't get boosted up off their quarter
He's been looking very good this series, even though NIP hasn't had much success.
A little boost for Daniel, and he's going to win the 50.
Another pass to Harkov.
What for do you need, Daniel?
Over to Atomic.
Almost with the ideal striking lane, but there's still a defender on the goal line just in time.
NIP escaped with murder.
But for how long can they get away with it?
Because NRG pressing forward to the final 45.
Ooh, I thought he was going to hit the scam.
Those pick up the corner booth.
There's a demo on CRR from behind, Beast Mode.
Being a nuisance, Oli has to lob this downfield.
And doesn't get that corner booth.
You can see NRG grabbing that up quickly.
And now on the other end, NIP going
to have to battle out of their own corner.
Go.
30 seconds to go.
Do we see an OT between the two tights of this group?
Essentially, CRR is going to end it.
It's always in behind the ball.
And there it is, NIP.
What feels like the first time and for ever take the lead CRR does it again
He's perfectly positioned behind the ball. He reads the 50s so well
And takes the shot catching energy out again
CRR is doing some heavy lifting for NIP heavy lifting
All he needs his teammates to come in and support him a bit
Another goal.
He's against CRR for the 1-10 RB, reading all the players of NRG, and just taking this
game by himself.
NRG went all in, Beast Road was trying to jump to Daniel, who might be a 5-3 jumping
on that plate, but CRR, he's a smart player.
He read that so quickly, he saw exactly what NRG was trying to do.
Cut the lane and put this game out of reach for NRG.
NIP doing so well to bounce back.
And Ole, will he get one?
Ole, why not?
It's nice to see another name pop up that isn't CRR.
And we have to get credit still to the teammates,
though, of Jorius and Ole as much as we love
seeing this pop up.
The defense has been stronger.
Those mistakes earlier on in the series
haven't been popping up or occurring.
No more three lanes handed over to NRG.
And that support was all CRR needed then
to take the rest of the game.
Yeah, and then the iciness from CRR
to finish those opportunities.
Also quickly recognizing, reading the play.
I think that's been what has really put CRR
up and above everyone else right now
is his ability to just read the play.
Division on everyone else on the field,
being able to predict where that ball is going to be
in a moment, not just where it is right now.
Jumping the lanes, making the plays, hitting the shot.
CRR, really doing some amazing work.
Yeah.
I mean, I love seeing this at FNIP,
especially because when they're backdoor against the wall,
you need somebody to answer the call.
I mean, how many times do you say that?
Somebody use the step up.
And it's CRR.
I mean, here it is.
Look, I mean, no wonder he's heating up.
He's got three layers in his foot up.
Yeah.
I mean, he's nice and cozy.
And we're going to have to get nice and cozy as well
If you want to purchase some tickets here for the Paris major, I mean,
there's a lot on the line that these guys are looking forward to.
It's not just Boston, it's Paris.
Then of course the world championship.
And I will say when we were in Lyon, the atmosphere was indescribable.
Like you had to have been there and experienced it to really
jump it in the air, grasp how amazing that was.
So if Paris is anything like that, make sure you scan that QR code and get
your tickets, you will not want to miss out.
but the road there starts in Boston and you got to carry that all the way
throughout the rest of the season. These players are focused up in this game
right now they're just trying to get out of the group stage and into the playoff
games. The demo from CRR Daniels last back. Very good 50. Now the net
vulnerable, Jorius though, does get back just in time to deny it. At the
Atomic, about half the tank trying to do some work, but Oli pockets.
CCRR, keep this attack going, no boost in the tank.
Daniel flips through, is bumped by Oli, who had no boost, and Oli's able to grab the mid boost as well.
NIP really starting to gel as a team.
Seems like they're starting to make energy uncomfortable too, and it's the clear indicator of that.
As it's the first time the defense looks absolutely scrambled at the time they're having to dodge a bump from CRR
And only has the awareness to take the early shot and Marzino a bit of a mix-up as well
And I'd be sending CRR over and over this is that wasn't even the first bump it took that CRR
I accepted this game
So it seems like they are really trying to throw that last defender off going for Bucks CRR
specifically
You know, forcing Atomic to jump and get out of his normal positioning.
And a nice shot from Ole as well.
So, like I said before, NIP starting to gel as a team, and they're still in the series
to chance.
You really pull this one back.
Maybe Atomic though.
It's a bit frustrated.
Looking for a solo play.
Beast mode off the ceiling.
Good 50.
Counts us down.
I'm not seeing as much aggression.
I think that might be a bit of a panic mode.
I entered for energy as they're seeing an NIP get more aggressive throw more tactical plays
For the Roan defense attack got here is still going for fun
If you got a dodge CRR, then you got to watch out for Dorian's only who you know they're respecting the back of mine
CRR is this plan to do critical strikes against NRG
now
Field in a lot of bumps
But now we see Eastmo trying to work. There's the ceiling double flip reset shut down
I have to watch out for that for Beast Mode.
Beast Mode loves using those ceiling bounces.
There he is, early jump, Beast Mode.
50 right to Daniel.
The shot is going way too high.
There's an ethical touch over to Beast Mode.
And the chemistry lock in for NRG.
I hurt my neck trying to look up to see where NRG was going.
Little tap over, really nice play there.
Atomic finding Beast Mode yet again.
Atomic was the one who passed it to Beast Mode
on the free jump.
Atomic is so central to this attack. He's the catalyst in so many plays for NRG
Such a lovely pass finding the beast mode on that. And a nice shot as well clean play there from NRG
Oh, but CRR still behind the ball. You got to get scared every time you see his name underneath this thing
But NRG they're so good at
Setting up shot in your own half and just waiting it out putting so many different shots on target not overextending
Well, this is waiting for something.
Beast Mode is not going to fly in and touch it.
I don't think Jorius would expect it either.
Double 50-50 for him.
He's going to go back to Holy.
What does he have?
A little bit of boost in the tank.
Free flips into the ball, but Daniel met well in the sky.
CRR dodging that pump attempt.
Goes for a nice 50.
He's in the middle of the Jorius.
But again, Jorius has touched.
Oh, no.
He's in control of it.
Now, NRG with a shot opportunity, and he sneaks in.
Oh!
And it's just an illusion.
You got a baseball, you got a tommy?
Who's gonna tommy that much?
I don't even think that was on purpose.
Did you get that ball over the right?
There's no way.
There's no way he planted that touch.
I don't even, I can't even comprehend what I just saw.
I don't even know who he did.
Replay back.
Look at that one again.
Wow, what a touch.
But also it all started.
Jorius lost possession of the ball again.
He could have cut the ball close.
Could have at least gotten a fifth.
Ended up handing that ball away.
And that was enough for NRG to work with.
I think that might have been CRR too, on the goal line.
I'm not sure of what's gonna happen.
Double command on the save.
And as much as we've been talking about CRR and NIP,
it's NRG in the lead on match point.
Flip reset us.
Ah, it's not gonna work.
Diorius was waiting.
Thought it was gonna trickle out, but no, of course.
NRG stopping down.
The counter attack nicely.
Now, getting up to these 50s, Jorias.
Nice new space to work with.
Jorias really needs to be something in fact.
Let's hop the ball again.
What is going on with Jorias?
And so I'd be a little bit cold here in Boston.
A lot of people talking about it's going to snow tomorrow.
But Jorias, he's watching up now.
Welcome back, young man.
What is going on?
I guess the answer is double taps.
Look at this.
Jorias reads the defense perfectly.
Saw that Beast mode was going to think about going
for his squishy save.
So instead of shooting it right on target for the double tap,
and that was a thing of beauty.
I think that's so important too for the mental.
Adorius with a talk and parking on his mistakes
all series long, couple of awkward 50-50s.
But getting a double tap at a crucial moment
when your team needs it, certainly feeling good now
on the pitch.
Maybe he'll be the one to step up, make this a game five.
The ceiling bounce.
Trying to get that reset.
He's fast in the business at plays like that.
Darius, not a slow start.
Huge goal, though, to tie things up for NIP.
Now, RG's back playing defense in their own half.
A little bit of an awkward ball for Daniel.
He hits it out, but right to Darius.
Darius, take the airborne.
Close for a 50 now.
But nobody challenges from NRG.
The ball bounces to safety.
Or does it? That one off the post is cleared off to the side.
10 seconds to go.
A lot of opportunities for NIP.
NRG on the back foot.
You can touch from Daniel, CRR early on the challenges.
Oh, Torias with a boost!
B-Sport, 1-1 opportunity!
And Denon, ball still up.
Huge stop from Torias, who has no boost in the hang.
Oh, it's still going.
NRG trying to end it.
They shot off the post!
We're still in it. In 0-2 we go. Game's not over yet.
A good kickoff for NRG. Backward being tested. Nicely controlled by Jorius, who is surging late in this series.
That was critical of some of the touches, some of the plays, but Jorius has been the reason.
He did it.
But no, not at all.
Base mode will win the series for NRG in overtime.
The final dagger goes through and it's beast mode with the pass from Daniel
NRG taking care of business
And they had to work for it of course as
Jorias started to pop off you talked about the resurgence at the end of the day not enough not what it takes
World-Chance still on top
Down in that that series was interesting turn right
Yeah, I can't say how energy's been a little bit hot and cold.
Even in that series of the meal, a little bit hot and cold.
They're going to win.
They're going to be winning this group without a doubt.
They're going to be going up against five fears as the last matchup for them in this group.
So, you know, I know, no disrespect to five fears, but NRG number one seed in North America defending world champion.
you can feel pretty confident in that result.
But in this series, credits, NIP, they bounce back.
They make some good plays.
Jorias stepped up at those final moments.
CRR had a great start, but it just wasn't enough.
Just wasn't enough.
Got a lot of highlight plays, though.
Jorias could have came alive, but man, oh man.
NRG are here to play in Boston.
But I think we've got Leaf waiting over here
on the interview with Beast Mode.
Let's see what he's got to say.
You are correct.
Turtle, I'm here with, excuse me, Beast Mode.
I'm choking you guys did you guys look right out there. There's a bit of a fight back though from from at the end
I was expecting this could be a series that goes to game five. You guys close it up pretty early. Yeah, I mean
Yeah, good. I mean interesting series overall. I mean, they definitely fought back pretty hard
They're a very good team very all talented players, of course
I think after the game to got a little antsy. I would say you know comms are
Yeah, I just a bit too antsy bit too much. Yeah, let's say so yeah, they fought back pretty hard and yeah
over all good teams is that a thing that could happen like we just like
maybe saying too much at times or is that what happens when you're when you
get antsy it definitely can I mean I think you're just doing too much like
do you want to do too much in the ball I try to because when you're up to it's
hard it's easy to like want to score goals or you just get a little ahead of
yourself here so things like that that's fair yeah I guess I always ask
everyone like yeah how you really yourself back in is it like did you
notice yourself to someone else have to tell you a chill out yeah it's a
mixture of things but like I think after we just take slow slow and deep
press. Yeah, but yeah, it's just a mixture of, you know, telling
us, so if I just do what we always do and just kind of do
simplicity, like simplicity in our chess is very important. So
because obviously, you know, if you do too much, you know,
leading to mistakes and things like that, but I'm pretty sure
both. No, excuse me, but looking at Ninjas and Pachamas, I
mean, this is one of the better teams at the tournament at
the competition here. And the fact that you guys look
like overall, you had a handle on it. How does it make you
feel about the rest of the teams you might be coming
across considering this is one of the top challenges?
Yeah, I mean, they definitely are.
I mean, it feels good and overall, I mean, definitely
we're not even playing our best, I would say.
And closing that series out 3-1, it's a good feeling.
So overall, we're feeling pretty good and confident.
We're just ready to play other teams.
And obviously, with top-not-finishers,
I've got to make top six.
But yeah, we're feeling pretty good.
Yeah, no, you got the ball rolling.
I don't see any fear in your eyes right now.
So you keep that going, man.
Congratulations on the win.
We'll probably talk to you later.
Thank you.
And we'll hopefully see you later.
We have one more series to go.
So please, this is not the time to leave.
Stick around.
It looks like you're backing up a bit here.
Okay, Luann?
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The 2026 RLCS season is well untruly in full swing, but as we look ahead towards what promises
to be an enthralling return to Boston, let's take a quick step back and take stock of
the stories that paved our way here.
Vitira and Atto, now with Juicy, yes he's French, by their side, once more top the European charts,
but again couldn't go perfect. Man, missing out on an EU clean, sweet, musky, poor old Vitira
up at night. Curse you, gentle mage! Casey, winning this season's shining new kickoff lan,
meant they sniked to fifth major spot for Europe right under North America's nose.
And it looks like it's all the blue wall.
The kickoff land belongs to them.
Apparently Jack, Seiko and Joyo would be Johnny on the spot.
No, not that one.
As they won a thrilling tiebreaker to claim that fifth place.
As a bitter Liverpool fan, it brings me great joy
to say hard luck man city and welcome GK to the major.
Carmen Corp.
Gentle mates, now with infinitely few of French players
but still equally adored by the green suits
and good ol' team Vitality sit pretty atop EU.
Of those, only Vitality are yet to win an Open this season, as Oskie defeated Vitira
in a grand final of a third Open for the third time, this time with Gentlemates.
As for the Hornets, they've now lost to Carmine Corp 11 at times in the RLCS, back to back
to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back to back
Still, consecutive semi-finals and the only European team other than KC to make top four
every time ain't bad, it's just not him.
Lingus and Pajamas played thrilling Rocket League at the kickoff land, finishing second
in Europe and top six overall.
That banked them enough points to make it to Boston, despite a pair of disappointing
top sixes in subsequent online opens.
Hopefully they live up to their usual high standards now they're back on the big
stage.
Karar competes in a major, representing the third region in his career.
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don't want to let it show, don't want to let it show
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don't want to let it show
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But before as it's been, it's time for me to go I want to sail away, I want to feel the way, thisness in my soul
I've got to go all the way
To eternity
I will run all the way to see you
I've got to go all the way
To time and space to find my way
To see you
of the ground up. Gravity take me up. Beautiful as it's been. It's time for me to go. I wanna
stay away. I wanna stay away.
They took game three. They got us overtime in game four, but ultimately the Ninja
the number one seed out of
Group A didn't even have to go
to day two to get it done.
This is the job will face off
against power tomorrow.
That will be a win and in for
the bracket Group A shape it up
very nicely. Yeah, basically
just our old format of GSL
groups. Basically what we
played you know the two one
and those played the two one
ones and we're gonna come
down to that nail button
series power versus ninjas
pajamas kid OC pull off an
upset. We'll find out
Yeah, and you know, I think they can based off of the this year's we just saw an IP look vulnerable. Sierra looked really good
I thought the whole series, you know, but I think there's more in the tank for for an IP
I still I like this format though because it's ripe for upsets, which maybe we'll get some we'll see
Yeah, you gotta love it. It's very entertaining stuff there. That's how that group went
We had a fun match up here me base as you were watching these games here
The energy is we're talking about them starting off slow. This was a much more familiar territory. I mean
It is out know how to handle this way to start off slow slow
I thought it don't matter and I just gonna come on on top and that's exactly what they did right here
I mean he they're a good team and they're solid their quality. I think our top 10 top 11
Team in the world and saying that they're gonna get the best team in the world
And it comes down to the little mistakes the little moments the instances like every day in the slam the ball
I would even say the little things of creativity you saw the atomic head fake as well
I felt like in our G they find ways to throw in those little fakes those little misdirection plays that just catch people on guard
Whereas I thought for NIP. There's a lot more predictable from them as an approach
But that may be my favorite goal of the series though was that CRR bouncing off the ceiling getting the double tap
I thought that was brilliant overall
Yeah, they made some in IP made some mistakes defensively and you can't do that
It keeps NRG, who is too good on every other aspect of the ball.
They almost made a mistake there at the end of Game 4 in regulation, keeping the ball up.
NRG almost got the buzz repeater on it. They don't really get the overtime ball there, but exciting stuff.
Group A here, finish off their Gibbs. It will be Power vs. NIP tomorrow to secure things.
Five Fears will get the honor of playing against NRG, but that won't affect the group.
Yes, that will not affect the group, because again, first tiebreaker is head-to-head.
And NRG's already beaten both 1-1 teams. Five Fears has already lost to both 1-1 teams.
So five years will be at bottom and energy will be number one.
Listen, I can already hear some of the format complainers right now saying
game diffs, game diffs to be the tiebreaker less.
And it makes no difference because tomorrow in our Jesus cover,
sweep that team regardless, it'd be nine two.
So the head to head versus the game diff and makes no difference.
You help your format people is what put it out there right now.
And I will say to you that that's where coaches are really going to make their bank
because you got to have tape on that.
All you got to have is one good game play.
Beat that team.
Yeah, no, this is why groups is great because you can prep weeks in advance
You know where you're gonna play make this where coaches agree. It's a great point to walk me through the scenarios here for group D real fast
Yes, so TSM is in that own two so rebellion because they already beat made in Brazil if they win next match versus mates
It'll be the same thing. They'll be 2 and 0 and they cannot lose the head to head
So they will win the group the mates can clinch at least a top two with a 3-0 victory
So that is what the mates are playing for obviously more to play for tomorrow. They each have one game left tomorrow
OK, well, that is it. We are in the region to end of the day here for day number one in Boston. The alternate stream has concluded its broadcast, so no more schedule to show you there. They'll have another full list of matches tomorrow, though. So make sure you got that tab bookmark so you can get it open in the morning here on the mainstream. We've played everything except for one. Let's get into a shot of five versus the general mates here to close out the action on day one.
And man, watching first killer work earlier today, it was a thing of beauty.
He was a beast, almost threw up a thousand points in one of those games.
And it was a really critical victory against MIBR as well.
And I think that puts the pressure on gentlemates.
Rebellion already got that job done.
That is the dark horse in this group, is how you're going to do against MIBR.
So I think Rebellion, they're looking much better in a better position.
The pressure is on gentlemates in this match.
And they were also tested.
Obviously that match went to five games.
It wasn't pretty at all times, but it was a tougher opponent and that warms you up so well for a later match versus the mates here
So you got to give a small advantage in terms of the intangibles to rebellion
And I also will say that the game where they closed out the series the final game
LJ was brilliant and that as well if you saw how good he was at the perfect aerial catches and then staying behind the
Ball getting fifties forcing opportunities for his teammates. You know, he was he was fantastic
And I think really the biggest question mark from me, from Rebellion was Kofir.
I thought LJ had his moments.
First killer looked good.
Kofir was solid, but I think he had another level he could get to that we didn't see the
first time they played.
You can see there, I mean he's not played nearly as many lands as his teammates here.
His best result is 12-14.
So still finding his lane shoes.
That's his major, that's that major, isn't it?
Major.
Which we remembered with that thruster on land.
Did have some nerve issues and we're not nearly as good as we saw online.
On the other side of things, a team
that has had lots of experience playing at this level,
all three of them, the gentlemates here, looking again
to try and secure that number one spot.
And these guys look great.
They're coming in with so much momentum, obviously
taking down K Corp in EU Open 3 to win that final grand
final to clinch that number two seed in Europe.
And honestly, they are now a contender
to win this entire tournament because of how much they
dominated that victory.
They played TSM earlier today.
There's a comfortable win.
At times it was close, but the mates
got the job done and that's all that matters.
So now, going into this match, like if they 3-0,
they clinched top two, thought to worry a little bit
about placement, but they're looking good so far.
You know, it's a 20.
I've become so familiar with Nas's face.
I just, I stand correct though.
I was saying, oh, this is Ross for so experience.
This is his first land.
This is a rookie here.
First, yes, major, but we've seen him on lay move
and saw him play for the NRG team.
He's subbed him for beast mode.
Sure.
What was that G2?
Yeah.
But.
We'll see, Archie.
He played a couple of lanes.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right, that's right.
Archie though, we know him.
We know his positional of master class that he does.
He's in the right place at the right time
when it matters most.
And then obviously, we gotta talk
about the big dog in the room, Oskie, showing up,
looking like one of the best players in the world
in that final open.
If he continues that, they can win this entire event.
And also, I mean, he's young.
He's what, only 18?
How many land appearances does he have?
Eight?
That's what it says.
Yeah, but I'm just making the point that
He was part of that legendary team Liquid Team who had to get approval to play when they
were younger than 15 in the RLCS.
That was the only time I'd ever played.
He turned 19 this month.
His birthday actually.
T-Bates really throwing off my point right now.
My point is even though he's so young he's already decorated and I would consider him
a land veteran with so much experience and you know I think for me Oskie he is such a good talented
player I think he's one of those guys where I when I saw him play thought this guy might be a future
world champion he might be a future world champion when he was on Team Liquid and this might be the
team they might be able to do it. And we talked about it Batesley and the pre-show they're
in their prime right now it feels like. Oskie has never played better Archie never played better
it's the perfect recipe right now to get this major victory. And that's why they're so dangerous
because they're just looking so great.
If you could beat Carmine, you could beat anybody.
And they didn't just beat Carmine, they dismantled him.
It was a dominant showing in open number three.
And that is, Carmine is the boogeyman
for Shopify Rebellion and First Killer.
That is your team that haunts the dreams
of Shopify Rebellion and First Killer.
So if gentlemates can take down the boogeyman
that Rebellion is afraid of,
now who can stay there?
They do haunt them, except for right here,
on Thursdays, on Fridays, at majors.
That's the time.
First-Killer's bound way through.
That's true.
He scored multiple times.
So again, you recall the weekday Warriors here.
It's still there.
It's the middle of the week.
It's Shopify.
This is their time.
I mean, it's kind of a silly story.
But it seems that it's time and time again proven correct
that at the beginning of tournaments,
these players are so clean.
Oh, yeah.
But he just shows the talent of First-Killer.
Like he's so talented, he can win a match by himself
at times.
And there's very few players that you can actually
mention that forward.
But First-Killer has done it probably more
than a handful of times.
So if first killer pops off like he did,
well, they have that first match
and it gets more team support,
they can definitely win this.
Well, Chad, let us know who you think is gonna win
in progressive fan vote.
And we'll make our picks up here on the desk as well.
James, I feel like we've been making arguments
on both sides here.
Yeah.
Who you got?
I'm actually gonna go gentle mates on this one.
I thought Rebellion was mortal in their first series
and it's gonna take more than a first killer pop-off,
I think, to beat this team.
Just gonna check my watch here.
Oh, it's Thursday.
It's killer day.
We have to go with rebellion.
Yeah, it's not watched by a tenor for watch.
Yeah, I got that for you right here.
It's Thursday. He's going to win the group.
He's going to go 3-0.
I'm going with the upset in rebellion.
I was just so fixated on his age that I had to look it up.
He turns 19 on Monday.
You're still?
I don't want to wait too late.
No, no, he turns 19 on Monday.
I believe Ato turns 19 on Sunday.
Yeah, they don't like.
I think that's how that works.
But anyways, anyways, going back to the action
what matters here, the predictions.
Rebellion versus gentlemates.
Give me gentlemates.
I'm going, I'm going with the green suits right here.
Gentlemates that better off at the firepower rebellion.
You got a lot of questions.
You haven't answered them yet.
Give me the mage.
I'm comfortable.
They're looking good.
But hey, the difference between good teams
and great teams is when you're not looking your best,
you are also wearing the pink.
It makes a lot of sense.
They bought, they bought his motor here.
They won game five on Champions field.
They've had a rough series earlier,
but they managed to clutch up that series.
That means a lot to me.
And I do think we're looking good.
I've got rebellion on this one.
We're split on the desk.
How does the coin feel about it?
coin could have a chance to go zero and six today.
I don't think it's ever done that.
It's never done that.
It's never done that.
It's going to go with the make.
It's going to go.
Oh, listen, that does the time for the 50-50 coin
to be correct.
It would be this match.
And it off closed it out right.
I mean, it's due.
Isn't a coin due?
You should unlock the wedges.
Statistically, it should come up.
But after this, generally, you've
got to flip right to the correct side.
Give me the mage.
6% in chat for a reason every week.
Or split on chat.
Or split on the desk as well.
It's time to close out day one of the Boston major.
Gentlemates coming on in looking for gold
Shopify rebellion trying to be the top of their group as well the two big dogs here in group D. Let's get into a shop
fire versus the gentleman
Well match of day number one here at the Boston Major
Gentlemen going up against Shopify rebellion game one
by
What
concerned. All the pride goes down in this round two. Shock of
a rebellion. This is the team from North America that everybody
has had their eyes on. They were the ones to take down and
achieve. They were the ones to really kind of shake their boots
and the same can be said for the mates over in Europe. So
head to head international stage. We're gonna see what we
get here.
Rebellion saw on the mainstream earlier today up against MIBR and what an electric series
that was.
I've been out playing some excellent defense in that and the Death God, he's got some
questions mainly teammates needing to see a little bit more out of this rebellion squad
comes to the offensive output but making a mistake about it.
This guy right here, first killer.
Gonna let this ball back to LJ but first killer had excellent performance and that
First one will take the shot here.
Great setup from LJ and Rebellion's starting out first.
That's hope.
He slowed from the gentleman's too.
I mean, you see Oskie go up and really really commit.
Dead balls hit, but first kill are so fast.
Fast enough that Archie couldn't quite predict
where he was going to go with the placement on it.
Rebellion, find their game one lead.
That's where other questions lie, at least for the desk,
is the offensive output.
Can he be consistent?
Can it be early?
Can it be often?
Kofor gets a demo downfield.
That's something we really haven't seen a lot out of Kofor.
Rebellion has a unit, they do average a lot of demos per game,
but a lot of it's coming from the first killer.
Instead of Kofor, which was the bread of butter
back when he was on space station,
let's take the downfield approach here.
LJ forced the ball out back to the first killer.
Gentleman's feeling pressure early here
from this rebellion squad.
Archie wanted to throw this one out.
I liked what I saw from Kofor,
and he's got to take his time on the plate too.
He is a player to watch out for.
But all eyes go to these last men on the polaroid,
and he saw the quick ties back on it,
a little bit of panic, front shock, a five-rebellion.
The perfect first killer expected that one to come across.
Yeah, he definitely could tell.
Gentlemen, we're just pulling back here, Nass.
There's a back, first killer, found LJ.
Still the net's defended.
First killer will go again off the ceiling, still 31.
Shot forced a double commit, go for it, quick chain dash, but he's not going to keep the ball.
LJ having to protect the retreat, good stop there.
Last push by a gentlemate.
Good for some sort of presence here in the blue half.
I do like what I'm seeing as far as Shopify is going.
They're holding on to this one goal and a lot of it through defense.
The mates have had pretty decent shot opportunity.
One to, I believe, every player on the team so far.
You can feel their pressure being attempted to a mount right now.
The first killer is going to put a stop to it now.
Tries to get the reset over one.
LJ there to carry it off.
Moske with a nice first move in some space.
Bumped downfield, LJ got once.
On his way back.
Kofa got in the way.
LJ lose the boost, Archie.
Took it away from the gentleman.
Quick shot, a little high.
Rebound was knocked back.
Another shot saved.
First killer puts it off the bar.
Rebellion holds on to their one go lead.
Still, Channelmates not giving up so easily.
First killer, a ton of boost, it works out.
Rebellion will at least by themselves a second.
Channelmates by themselves another possession.
Crazy thing is the rebellion defense
is really what is keeping them ahead here.
And you can see Archie just trying to dismantle it.
Tried to force some sort of a bumper
and demo on the back end.
And even then, shot by Rebellion is still launching.
So all of these attempts feel almost for nothing as far as the Mates
concern. They're going to try and get into here to spot each other.
Another read from Rebellion.
Those ways on one touch, two touch, maybe a center.
You know what? You deserve to have that goal scored.
Oskie delivering a beautiful passing play.
Grab the reset.
Hold the double, turns it into a triple and Nass turns it into the first goal
for gentle mates, excellent work on that offensive position.
This is the mate that a lot of people looking forward to.
Two fakes, though, all the way out hard.
She's gonna get a little bit of time on this ball.
They run towards it, but mates now have a foot in the game,
and that's the backboard.
See who's the quickest to follow up.
But a rebellion interception and a big clear could be good
for the boys on blue.
LJ, set back to Kofur.
The first killer sitting on the right side.
Ball falls straight down.
The gentleman's chasing the ball down.
Can't get a hold of it. LJ'll take the boost.
Won't get much more out of it.
Got bumped off the plate.
Still, the gentleman's...
Trying to wait and stretch this ball away from Rebellion.
He started out so hot, they had a lot of pressure.
Only one goal to show for it.
It's Nass. Steals the ball from the first killer.
over LJ, NASS, delivering up.
No dunk.
Dangerous area for Kofur to hit the ball.
When he gets it by, and the attack's still going for Gentleman.
Quick pass, shot to nine.
Rebound back to NASS.
High off the backboard.
Gentleman's are looking and hunting,
but throwing guns now on the shots.
Couple of good opportunities by the way.
Cyberbellion.
Hell chicken fucked again here.
NASS, actually both stolen away from him.
Kofur won the bump.
He won't get off.
First killer has a habit to work with here.
10 seconds left though in regulation.
A shot from LG to an uncovered backboard.
Could it be the end of the three to go?
And the ball's floating on blue.
Shot by rebellion.
Gotta make this clear.
If they want to keep it going, a ball pops up in the sky.
First killer's going to keep it in place.
Down to one is Mosby.
Keeping control for the maids.
But over time is loose.
Over time is here.
Game one.
Valiant, they opened with a right hook.
Gentlemates gave him an uppercut here
near the end of the game,
next to that beautiful pass from Oskie,
but I can't wait to see the end of this game.
Let's see what rebellion gives you off this kickoff.
LJ couldn't win the ball, he lost another move to Oskie,
tries for the ball, now we'll commit
for rebellion here as well.
A little bit of space, NAS, left to his own devices.
Gentlemates get reset back on the midfield.
On the other side, coming through, LJ will just get the beat.
Every time we switch to LJ, he has no boost.
He hits the midfield, finally.
Kofa off the by-time.
It's that and some more.
First killer still downfield.
Rebellion just can't quite find an opening
on these 50-50s.
First killer rips into the backboard or back wall.
Archie said his name a lot, but gets the job done here.
Stuck, stuck with the ball.
Now, Shadowmates can't get it going beyond the midfield.
My Kofa might have a chance to saw first killer trying
to force hurry up mode on Gentlemace.
50 goes right back in front.
That's just a pass to Gentlemace.
Then they go off the ceiling.
Nothing.
Rebellion defense holding for now.
You can tell that the maids are starting
to get pretty aggressive with it too,
but Rebellion's trying to get you back.
LJ, nothing in the tank.
RG took it away.
First killer immediately sends it back.
But the maids' plan right now
is to just send one person upfield,
trying to clear a path.
It tends to be Archie at times,
but it's gotten ahead of themselves a little bit.
And then these transitions keep coming back here in this loop
until one person finds some sort of space
or an opportunity could be a rebellion.
I mean, you said it, Hercules and the Coford
gets demoed by Archie, who went downfield,
but rebellion have kept us in the archamp.
That's a 50 right back.
It's filming right on top of the ball.
Just getting there, Coford.
We'll find a way to keep it out.
But Hoski, 50 out.
It's a wide angle from his teammate.
The forces channel makes back the most scary fifties that kicked out into space
They just a little too much time for other team to get to is Archie launches it down
They'll back foot from his teammate. It's called for a chance. That might be a dangerous ball
15 goes out to the side that's called for on the same off key on the shot
Now keeps it at play in the corner only a boost to his name and no play
That low use really could be the detriment of shop fire belly and although first killer had just enough to get out
He does get them back the rebellion boost continues to get stolen
But again, these big players are really what are holding them and keeping them in this OT
Almost a over half a day for a could be played at this point
Game one overtime first killer got a 50 got a nobody's around
Covert does not expect the first killer to get everything on that flight
First killer, he's been hunting as that first man all game looking for trying to find a clearance lane, whether it's through a buck.
We're coming back on a blindside challenge because it worked out for him just yet.
Rebellion, get back over to first killer.
And dump downfield. Rebellion again.
A dump, a chase, and a 50 to get killed in the corner.
It's really incredible how well everybody has been able to just time these very very solid
rotations on both ends of the field but the Mates right now have I feel had to play the
most equal defensive offense in this OT so far.
It's Rebellion just throwing these hands up, frustrating them, there's another hand
to go.
Stover tries to lead the charge to the backboard off, he cannot be moved.
Tried to use the ceiling.
wall to give himself a little space you can't get a bump positioning from
gentlemates on the back wall and have to find a little move.
He's in comfort, find the slingshot off the gentlemates and Ropeleon will take a one.
All the way from his head to the next, the reset just over the nose Archie and Ness.
I mean this is why this chick got picked up.
Put his car on the opposite side just to get around Archie.
I just want to see it again, because Kofa's behind the ball, then has to flip around
just to get that 50 to prevent Archie from actually getting the clear,
and instead he turned it into a huge goal.
Kofa doing a lot in that game, Archie.
Ruhl almost dropped a thousand points, 9-30 to his name.
Eight saves alone.
That was that defense I was talking about, that rebellion.
Really had to play nice and strong, because on the other end of the field
you got Nash shooting nine on his own.
So clearly there is a very solid balance as far as the offense is concerned.
It's doubling down to who is going to be able to defend their net the best.
Just a lot of great defense on both ends.
Don't forget credit for those eight saves.
So many times LJ was jumping in front of passes,
he was a defensive third as well
and preventing any kind of bad 50 that might have happened.
He was able to jump in front of the ball early in that game.
Like, LG was getting starved a lot, getting his boost all in.
It seemed like Gentlemates, after Aski scored that first goal,
was, Gentlemates were going to take over.
Instead, find a way to get it done,
despite the bumps really connecting.
You look on either end.
Both teams were really trying to create gaps.
Now, game two, Rebellion find a way
to squeeze out a tight victory.
Gentlemates forced to respond here.
Curious to see if the game plan is going to be the same.
I mean, you talked about these players leading the charge, right?
My favorite little cheeky thing that I kept picking up
on the wide cam was Archie, really, really trying
to go for those demos onto rebellion,
but rebellion's not even afraid of it.
They've done a great job holding on possession
into these first 20 seconds here.
Snaps saved the charge.
The challenge on one.
Cobra's going to try and complete the center,
but it all dies down.
LJ takes the touch.
First killer was turned.
Actually, good recovery there from the first killer.
Alliance Cofors, somehow Rebellion turning this into an opportunity.
Come on inside the LJ and, well, still generally find a way to get to an Oskie.
She gets demoed on the back end.
LJ completely failed on the flick.
First kill is forced to play defense.
One minute into this one, Rebellion are doing the same thing.
Not forcing opportunities, just allowing them to unfold in front of themselves.
But on the end of the mate, it is definitely a forced situation.
And he fakes the monkey underneath, got past.
I thought maybe Nas is gonna generate something out of that.
Nas has had a couple of really good pushes.
Couple of really good looks.
Kofur, somehow that drops a little dangerously.
LJ off the bar, first kill is around, but he can't go.
He comes back quickly.
LJ will buy first kill time to get that corner boost.
Hit the clear down field.
Kofur, just a fortunate demo there going for boost.
Nas just happened to be there.
That was a good killing, 50 for Moski.
Unfortunately the second 50, not as good for him.
Faked the first touch, another demo with the first kill with the light touch.
It gets scooped out to the side.
Aren't you getting harassed?
Now rebellion are connecting with demos, but can't come up with a goal.
Extend jellies, hit him with a counter.
The craziest domino effect you saw, the moment that Nas decided to bake over it a little bit.
He goes over one, and it's the handoff, the slight handoff to Moski
that just completely demolishes the defense of Rebellion.
All six players got to keep their camera on a swivel
or really got to be keeping their mind open to any option.
Been a lot of big fifties going around.
Gentlemen, Witozki almost find a way
to put a second goal in there.
Now Rebellion, you talk about how their offense
went in the last game.
It took a very long overtime
to get their second goal.
LJ downfield, and now taking still even longer
to get their first goal in game number two, his first killer.
Cobra not sure he was looking at theirs.
First killer jumps it again.
Cobra got the other boost, got the touch,
and it was red.
Well, you can see the player tags
of all sorts of points going.
There's so much happening in the field.
Devils, we're getting saves.
Here's another shot of first killer.
Trying to drop it down on a 50.
It doesn't work out.
Go for Deep.
By himself, LJ will help him.
Yeah, I like this pass-off too.
It allows go for the timing space, pinch off the ceiling,
attempt it to the backboard.
They're great reed from Austin.
Gentlemen, right now, their plan is just to read these attempts
and get these solid clears back out into the pool.
Just really waste the time and energy
of Shufflepile rebellions.
Here comes another big clear.
We're just gonna work together with him
inside to see that slight pass-off
that is keeping the mates just ahead
of her belly and steeper.
Wide pass, LJ can't go, he actually used a lot of boost to get to the wall!
The Longos stopped it through the seat!
Oski! Back to RG!
Denied! First killer wall on the main!
Two times denied!
Yes! Lining this one up, Yelvin's are quite done!
And can't get it going!
They gotta get back to their own half, get some boost and try again.
The maids are holding on to this one.
They'll leave with all they've got, but you can feel rebellion trying to ramp it up!
First killer, down to one, attempted to hit LK.
NAS is clear about the rookie making the breakaway.
More than 80 wanted to send him up so bad.
But NAS had like 30 booms there.
That might have been a goal.
It's difficult by rebellion at all.
We're hustling back to net.
That was a dangerous opportunity.
But NAS didn't have anything to build momentum.
And now a minute left though.
The generalmates don't care.
They've held onto the ball.
Ah, it's game.
Can't put it on target.
55 to go, chop up my rebellion, they gotta find each other on the offensive front.
Everything has been fairly disconnected and not even to their fault.
They're getting intercepted time and time again, here's another attempt,
pass over to first killer and there's the intercept from next.
Pass over to Orchi and it's the mage transition that is wasting the time that they need.
You can see the desperation from rebellion, the last three pushes,
second match just going, even if they're three feet to the ball.
Kofa's just throwing his body, hoping it works out.
LJ got a nice tipper, Kofa trying to dive for it.
First killer up quickly.
LJ's got no boost up, he can't go for mid.
Have to pop this up, hit my work.
Kofa one, two, just wide.
LJ just dive his bodies.
Can they put something in the net?
No, they keep getting starched and stuffed, LJ.
What my chance?
That was a field.
Boosting forward, LJ, denied.
The last few moments to throw your hail,
Mary is now and it could end here, but into the air.
It first chiller took one, LJ,
to Topper, Topper, try to make it into their net,
they flew on, and there's Gale.
The seeds break away.
I just wanna see that box played four times.
I don't care about anything else that happened
in that game when we go to the replay.
I just wanna watch that again.
How the hell does that not go in?
What a way to end the game.
Jettelmaids almost had that game ripped from them
and we would have had a second straight overtime, Hercules.
Wanna try at the end there in zero seconds,
but don't, from Jettelmaids to hold on there.
Nass, who's getting the MVP honors.
Here we go Hercules, let's look at it again.
Archie gets stuffy at nothing.
First kill, try to get there.
Oh, down.
Wait, rocket's back, rocket's back.
Okay, so Archie, try to get it down.
Look at this, man.
And here's number three.
Ready? One more time.
Nas on the side wall.
Perfect timing.
Even for Dutchie, can't believe those stuff.
But you can even see the maids streaming the corner of her eyes.
Knees on the ground, absolutely freaking out.
And what they just witnessed.
It's funny because you got the, you got
General Maids fans and then CJ CJ.
Literally across the wall.
We got that happening in the room here as well man, what a way to end that game.
And gentlemates holding on to it, talk about momentum.
And like there's literal, it's a literal momentum based game.
Not just mentally, but also physically.
And gentlemates somehow keeping both ahead of rebellion.
Game three, you gotta forget what just happened if your rebellions start again
start again, but they've been getting stuffed on the offense.
LJ will grab the ball third man and he's got nothing.
First killer back.
I will say as much as you want to say it is not a mental game.
I can feel the frustration double coming right there.
Just told you everything you kind of need to know headed into this graph
into this game three rebellion are frustrated.
And there was a point in time where their disconnect was what really
started to kill them, so Maze is going to try and capitalize on it off the on its own.
Carry down Archie, why?
Right, Archie just didn't know when exactly to go there.
He saw Oscar had control of it, and he knew there might be an opportunity,
but he wanted to pick the correct moment.
Fade from Gentlemates.
Little more pressure on rebellion, it really has been Gentlemates controlling
pace of play outside of that last minute of the last game where Rebellion was finally
getting some consecutive touches and some good 50s. Here's first killer again who really said his name
and anything really incredible offensively. We just watched him get stuck by now.
First time the charm on land, his debut has been nothing short of absolutely incredible.
there was a reason he was the one that got to suck in for Beast from the world to his potential.
Nass has had a lot of really great looks in this game. Even in game one he had
a lot of faulty man beats on his air dribbles. Really good for Russia, L.J. and that just
pitches right down to the defense and you got a filled pressure 50 by 50. Nass really
cause it's some issues that's on Archie is cause and issues they truly have
rebellion just all tangled up on the ropes
Kofa's got no boost quarter to the spawn for a first killer quickly up 33 though
three set each one almost beats two Archie is now the problem child on
defense for rebellion and Kofa's trying to fix it himself you've seen in
multiple times, go into their net, try and take Archie out of the way, but even
on their end it's Nass that you really got to be looking out for now.
First killer up over to LJ, she's the slightest of touches but enough speed to put them through
and here comes Kofi to follow, he's going to slow it down, try and make the center
over to himself but it's out.
Well Daly and Hadbuff, they have the ball, it's been here in the Orange half, but
One of the quality shots.
There are none.
Now, Gentlemates get back downfield.
Nass, one of them stayed, denied.
Kofor gets in the way.
But Nass, he's like a trebuchet.
Ever dangerous from about 300 meters or really right
in their face.
Here's another one from Gentlemates.
Horses in the 50-out.
Another shot from the post.
Nass, go!
The Fades area showing pure teamwork at this point.
Also, that's the confidence that is oozing from this squad right over in their heads of 2-0.
You saw LJ, he couldn't go over, trying to make the port when that ball kicked out again.
There was just going to be too little, too late there.
Nas, going around.
Rebellion, looking for an answer.
No boost for LJ.
Dead play.
Seeing that, a couple of times rebellion and throw ball up, trying to air dribble and try to control the ball, but got the moves to do it.
Downfield, go for it, get the ball, they brought in a two!
What? Honestly, what? Okay, huh?
Archie's actually such a thorn in their side.
Even on no moves, he's able to time those jumps perfectly to keep them on out
and enforces rebellion to turn around and try again.
Archie, shut up field.
Shut-up field, flowed down by FK himself.
The player we've all been waiting to see
if he can wake up and really save this team
from a match point.
The bellion need a 50 to fall their way.
They need someone to answer the bell.
Kofir trying to get around it.
First killer kicks it hard.
LJ, he's on the other side of the field.
He actually gets the ball.
First killer diving forward.
Algae Lance has the midfield boost to be able to challenge no he won't he won't be able to do anything
Oscar took my foot into the net save at the last second, but it's not done
Nass two touches, Nass is on fire
This kid it cannot be stopped. Look at the timing on how quickly he goes to the top
Has the space for the double down
And the mates up three nil with a minute to go couldn't have a better cushion
After the first, the way the first two games gone.
Maybe Rebellion's defense will be able to keep them in it, but
the wheels have fallen off the wagon in game number three.
And Nass is at the center of the show. Here he goes again.
Feels like he can do no wrong. You see the confidence in the car language.
Having really one of the best series I remember him having on landing.
Any context. Really great performance from him so far.
so far as Archie on target safe.
Really, it's just more feel-good goals.
Now keep it back, keep possession.
Ozzie, who really started the fireworks,
for gentle ants, will bring this one out now.
20 seconds left to go.
It's starting to feel a little impossible, not entirely.
But if that's able to do this here, it could be.
Jeez.
Settle down.
Leave some for your teammates now.
My goodness.
First of all, Archie, great 50.
The catch is back behind the ball after his first 50.
And perfectly, Feroa under it for the reset
and drops it perfectly for Nass.
That one was all Archie.
Well done to get that fourth goal with 14 seconds left.
It's all Channelmates heading in and putting Rebellion
on match point, completely stuck in game three.
You can just absolutely sense the adrenaline rush
that this tier has found in the number one.
Stack them up.
Stack them up.
Why not?
Gentlemen, it's hot pink right now.
It's not hot pink, but you get what I'm saying.
It's a beautiful blush pink that, you know,
it's a wonderful color.
It's a wonderful team.
It's a crazy land, it's beautiful.
And Nass, Archie, and Oskie could point to a play
from all three of them.
Archie especially on defense in the last game.
Nass just scoring when he wants.
In this game, Oskie really starting it earlier on as well.
NAS dropping 916 points thanks to some,
we'll say victory lap goals at the end.
Yeah, 300 of those points were at the end.
But hey, no one's going to know that
when we look back at the scorecard.
You know, for our box score watchers out there,
you know, if you're out there trying to say that,
you know, NAS is incredible.
There you go, you got more juice.
Yeah, this kid is actually genuinely so much fun to watch,
Especially when it is like I said that adrenaline rush of you've kind of figured it out
He almost entered a little bit of a flow state there
There was I believe one player where NAS tries to go up and there it is
Down in front of a first killer and all of this results in a Shopify rebellion timeout
The two teams can make it out of this group and rebellion have really gone through their paces
they had a really tough five game series against MIBR, where MIBR for two straight minutes,
I didn't see a single boost count on MIBR and rebellion couldn't put the ball in the
net.
And they played so well with low boost defense, gentlemen have not been starved pretty much
this entire series.
And we're seeing what's happening here to rebellion's offense.
We're still waiting for it to answer the phone.
Take this tactical time out and try to get it figured out.
supposed to be a high scoring offense. We're just not seeing it right now.
Gentlemates have played excellently. Man, you can point to all three players at
different points. We talked about Archie saves. It's good vibes over there. All
serious business over here. Final appenda. I said what he needed to say.
Take that extra 60 seconds and extra breath. What a series so far for
the gentlemates.
An incredible performance.
This is the level of play that I think most people expected
from the gentlemates, but it is the fact
that they are able to consistently put it out there
against a team like Shopify Rebellion.
The one team that was very much giving NRGA a true fight
for that number one spot in North America,
especially after winning the Copenhagen kickoff plan.
There's a lot of pressure riding on their backs.
And they put a target there, and the mates are here to take them down.
Rebellion, that scored two goals in game number one.
They've scored one goal since.
LJ, he gets a co-fer, looks like it's his first killer,
and it didn't happen in a lot with rebellion.
A lot of broken passes, a lot of passes that weren't even
Passes because the teammate either doesn't have the boost, doesn't like the look.
You said it earlier in the series, Harkin, these disjoints and...
...try to get things going.
And, okay, actual pitfall there.
The gentlemates will have to be taken.
Aljay forces the 50 and first go force the duck bit.
Aljay couldn't get the ball.
The biggest thing for Shopper Pie Rebellion is these are three incredible players in their individual rights.
and what made them so strong was the fact that they could come together cohesively.
They learned how to play such a solid three-man game,
but when they are frustrated, they tend to go back to their old ways of, you know,
this is me. How do I take control?
And I mean, it is just, it is mind-boggling the way that the mates have been
this consistent against them.
After Archie ran a rough shot on that rebellion defense,
they actually had an opening, and they did not collect on it.
You're probably not too worried if your gentlemates,
the rebellion's offense is really threatening you too much.
LJ is a good double moves, but again,
look how far back Kofa is.
Kofa was actually, was he getting harassed by Hotsky there?
First he goes third man, but no one there to support.
First killer himself off the bar.
LJ's talk back again, nobody's ready in the third
to assist first killer coming across.
Look at back.
First killer trying to get me get this don't this is what I was talking about
there are these moments where unfortunately they're a little bit too
in their own world right now so one person is either a step ahead of the
other or a step behind first killer again he goes to the bump and over behind
on the play and all of that all it does is allow the gentleman space to
continuously transition out in depth he shots over and over and over again
Another one defended. Archie going for the pinch.
I think Alchie's having a real tough time getting control of this ball in the series, Nash.
He's not having any trouble at all.
He does get stomped on the 50-50.
Kofor does get the pump. Alchie's underneath this time. They do connect.
Their first killer across. Has to miss field boost. Archie also gets his boost stalled.
This might be the push for rebellion, but so slow on the follow-up, forced to dump out.
Gentlemen, it's... there's somehow an offense after three consecutive loose grabs from rebellion.
I think they should be pushing, they should be stacked up, but nobody's around in the midfield.
And now LJ, a hard dump, he gets a free touch.
But first killer, no. Not on the side.
Cofer, not there to cover.
No one's there available as second man on offense for rebellion.
There's just too many misses coming out of rebellion right now. They want to spot each other
But there's just a level of communication that is lacking right now that the mates
Genuinely do have a lot of luck at the moment that was what separated them in game three from this game four
Boss keep trying to make that clear up Archie just faster than first killer
But it does dive into the nose of cofer and he's gonna try and take control
He's got a quarter to work with.
He takes a slow shot, but the mazes are trying to get him.
It's just impeccable.
Moski.
Dark goes out.
First killer.
Predicted with the same.
Drow from Archie.
And a lot of bumps.
In Rebellion's half.
LJ forces a 50 out.
That's really good.
And LJ's rolled his.
Okay, I grabbed the ball to get us out.
50, but if you're going to have a recovery, you're going to get boost.
Here's a shot.
Off the bar.
No one jumped.
Rebellion getting in front of that one.
And that one, Gentleman's hunting.
While we were talking about rebellion struggles on offense,
Gentleman's also not been able to collect.
And this one rolls out for free to first killer.
A demo on the backside as well.
See Koba running around trying to get more demos.
He doesn't get anything out of an LJ.
It's around this one.
Can't get the dunk.
Hard pass down, down!
Just off the post!
Gentleman's almost killed him on the counter,
and rebellion get another clear.
You could feel rebellion's heart start to sink
into their stomach in that moment too.
You cannot let that happen.
All angles need to be defended.
The back pass goes for over to LJ and bounces
into the wrong place, which is towards that net.
Wow.
First killer to bail out 13, just go.
And it is the maids that wanna get that pressure here.
This challenge from Nass could be the one to end it all.
As five on the clock, the first killer
around the corner is gonna put
Shopify Rebellion in the orange side.
But a counter-down field!
Stop when I almost get it!
The Sniper shot!
Gentlemates!
Ruined the game for rebellion!
And take them down in four!
Top tier!
That is what the Gentlemates are!
They start their day out with a 3-0 sweep and they end in the same way!
Zero second goal and a little bit of flash for Big Oscar.
What a performance from the gentlemen in this group.
Not an easy group with a rebellion in it, but a rebellion.
Offensive blows continue.
How often did we see them actually push the ball down field?
And I think, you know, we played on the pre-show,
they played the one word game described to each team.
I think you nailed it for a rebellion during this series, which disjointed.
unable to get anything going.
The thing is, you know, back in the day before Rebellion had this crazy click once Kofor
is coming, right?
You looked at first-killer individual.
On almost any roster he had been on, his, you know, fault, quote-unquote, was that he
was almost two individual, two in his own world.
Not for like five years.
Yeah!
He has it!
He has it!
No, no, no, no!
You know what?
I was not through right there!
No, no, no!
No, no, no, no, no!
He should have been a key player for years now!
Look at this.
OK, what am I seeing?
The replay did you do anything?
With this, how about that?
How about that right there?
Beautifully shot from Ozzie at the end of the game.
He started the scoring for Channel Mates.
So why not end it for Channel Mates?
Man, what a series from him.
We'll go over to Leif to talk to the Channel Mates.
Ending it maybe a little bit shorter than we thought I thought for a certain that was an overtime
But Naz is with me standing a winner as they take down shop a firebellion and I match now
Did you think that was going overtime?
Yeah, I thought so. Yeah, of course. Yeah, it went the pride. So I mean those are good show from us here
Yeah, I think overall you guys look like you're having fun
I think this squad in general is almost always smiling you were confident coming in I said when you walked by
Hey, are we talking after that match and you said as always you were confident from the get-go
Is that something you guys have to like talk about and you've actively thought about keeping up or is just natural you guys are
Are this happy all the time? I think it's natural
I mean even from last season we made off key and says he told it told each other that we should be happy playing game
We don't got a lot of chances to lose there from let me play at the LAN example. So we just should be happy and
Yeah, and when you play happy a bit of us, I'm not gonna lie. You don't have to explain being happy too much
It's a good thing to do. I don't think anyone's gonna argue against that
Coming into the series now, I mean we saw already Shopify before first killer was talking about having weren't having like the best day today.
Did you feel that from from your perspective as well?
Or do you feel like it was just you guys being on point that made the series go the way it did?
I think we played pretty well. There's a lot of positive things to take from, but also negative we should work on.
But I think Shopify is a good team, but I think they can play better for sure.
And overall from your perspective from I guess the the scrims and everything coming up to this
how has the vibe been in terms of
The the teams that are expected to do the least and the teams that are expected to do the most
How's that gap overall? Do you feel like it's closing or is it still kind of a bit sparse?
I definitely think it's closing. I think I mean in top six everyone can beat anyone so
Yeah
I guess for you for the squad I'm gonna let you go so you can hang out with them. What do you guys do tonight?
You guys were already playing good. You look like you're feeling good
Do you do anything extra tonight to be prepared for tomorrow or just try to keep it in the same level?
I mean right now. We're just gonna tell a bit play ranked
Ranked yeah rocker like that makes it's not for some people not a good idea
Now we'll play ranked will maybe look over some things from the Shopify game
But I mean definitely rest for tomorrow. Yeah, I get get some sleep and have fun
That sounds like a winning model to me. Nass. You got the job done. Thanks for hanging out
I'm sure we'll be doing it again in a bit here, but that's the end of the day
We don't have any more matches for you guys, so let's go back to the desk
Let's get a little nerd take on what we saw today. Let's get the numbers and stuff
That's right. We got some numbers of stuff here if you're on USD's to one of the best players in the world
Hey, maybe off on rank right now. You can maybe stream snipe the gentlemates here as they're gonna be queuing up
I mean, they're not gonna be singing it, so it's not gonna be a snipe, you know, they're trying to snipe them, and they're like,
it's a gift, gift, what's going on here?
Look at my watch, it's Thursday!
It's Thursday! What happened?
Ah, it was so close, right? That game too was the difference maker, it feels like.
Mmm.
Such a close play, Nass played such a fantastic match.
You see this game, zero boost, drives up the sidewall, somehow makes that save you.
If it's an inch more to the wide, then Kofre probably puts that in as well, and then after that, it was all mage, it was all Nass.
And one once again, I'm keep harping on it there was a shot by rebellion office is not exist today score two
Not scoring in two game three or game four that is inexcusable at this level you have LJ
You have first kill you got gopher who should be up there playing to chase
Over did have a really have a really nice goal early on in this job. That's great
Yeah, you're right the offense fell off, but you know, they I think for rebellion this could be a disappointing result
You know, I think but you guys take a step back
Remember though, they got that clutch win against
That was in and now looking in hindsight that was incredibly massive
You even just in that game in that series you could tell for both MIBR and Shopify rebellion
They knew that the group result was that series it was coming down to that series
And I think gentlemates really prove that they are the top dog in this group without a doubt.
And then real quick, I'm trying to do some quick math.
I'm giving some arguments about like how mates clinch are not yet.
I think they have a knot.
There is a chance, I think, through multiple tie breaks that they could be knocked out,
but a lot would have to go wrong.
If they win even one game tomorrow, they will be fine.
Oh, yeah, they play made in Brazil.
Yes, they played made in Brazil.
So if they get 3-0, they could tie rebellion on game differential, like it for a billion 3-0s.
And then it goes to gold differential and then we can get into gold
It's yeah, it's a three-way head-to-head. Don't worry about this is why
We'll get some slides for you.
Yeah, it's going to take a few.
I will say I'm glad to see that
Group C, which we thought was
going to be the spiciest group
is continuing to be spicy here.
Vitali up on top for Rio.
They'll have a match against
Carmen Corp tomorrow.
I'm excited about that.
That day's going to be great
because Group B and C,
everyone is saying they're
the two toughest groups
and we only have to see one
match out of those.
So anything is possible in
both those groups.
Honestly, the scheduling was
brilliantly done.
Whoever decided which games
are going to be playing on
which day because it's
going to be the best
game ever.
you play on which day because today was crazy.
I mean, I was talking about it earlier in the cast,
Thursday at 1 PM Eastern time,
I wasn't expecting to have my blood pressure raise so high
in that Rebellion MIBR matchup.
So it has been delivering today.
Group pure entertainment, it's been so good
and I think we're gonna even better games tomorrow.
Listen, you talked about the Vitality Kormon wave.
Yep. Vitality hasn't been Kormon.
It's 11 in a row.
11 in a row.
11 in a row, yeah.
It's the last time Vitality won a row,
says was that back in the World Championship?
That was the word. Yeah. Oh my God. In 2023, when Zen hit, it wasn't.
The Mr. Physics, he fits reality to his will. That was the movie's line.
That's the last time Taudy is being the organization to go on my court.
At least in our last chance. They have been in our last chance.
Oh yeah, they've been in the booth. They've won.
Yes. And in the Civil War.
Hey, but what better time than in Zen's hometown?
Boston. Yeah, Boston. I think the crowd cheered for him as Honorary American.
Yeah. You gotta play the game.
We'll say we'll say and then these are the stories that you get to witness when you come and watch the games in the venue
Takes to Boston still still there are a few a very singular few left
But also if you are in the European side of things or if you've got the money to get over there folks get your tickets to Paris
Oh my goodness is it gonna be crazy and I have heard a lot of people as well are treating this as vacation
Like you've got a significant other if you maybe they're not big on rocket league, but if you like oh, but do you want to go to Paris?
for five days. I'm gonna be busy. You can go see the site. You can go shopping and eating
food. Well, I'll be watching. I'll say it as I believe Paris is Paris. Two days. Three
days of Paris is three days of fans like a world championship. So basically you're
getting the world championship, but it may be more than a world championship. And
after you get wild and Paris, then you go to the All-Sies World Championship. Where
that is? Because you can, because then you convince her to then go to the world
champion. What you got in your partner hooked on rocket league. Hey, you get two lands out
of it here. You know, I mean, hey, you know, it's gonna be a good time for everyone regardless
of how you go and what you do when you're having a good time there. Get your tickets if you
can folks. This is the schedule for tomorrow on our alternate stream slash RL e sports
starting off the day with Furia versus Falcons. If you really want to kind of put put the
tape over the haters mouth, that's the match to do it in right there. Then we'll
have for Karmicorps versus SSG, five fears versus NRG.
We'll see Shopify take on TSM, Fury versus Virtus.
Pro.
Hey, Fury has got a heavy load of lifting to do there.
But then Twisted Minds versus SSG is well-made.
There's some good matches on the old stream.
That one could actually be forwarded at the back game.
Why is that our last match on Group Z?
Let's see the main stream first.
It's because it's the group at death.
They're both so good.
Cancel ready played at the same time.
Ah, Karmicorps.
Vitality so
Man
It makes sense for them all to be played at the same time. Whoa, that's interesting. Okay. See if Casey's that means my tally's playing twisted minds
Oh my goodness. Wow
Vitality beats twisted minds and Carmine beats
We're not gonna get into the math
All right, we'll be here all night trying to explain.
Five breakers, so we'll keep you guys covered throughout the broadcast tomorrow on who needs to win what there.
There's a lot of things to talk about, but what a day it's gonna be versus pro starting things off first time on the mainstream.
We'll get to see them to kick things off tomorrow morning.
That's our show for today. Brighton early 10 30. The pre show starts here. Eastern time.
We got the kickoff at 11 a.m. So we hope to see you guys there.
Thanks a bunch for watching. We'll see you tomorrow for day two of Boston Major.
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